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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 585 · 40 questions
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Engineer's tip (Ask, imagine, plan, create, test, improve): Ask (problem, users, limits) → Imagine (many ideas) → Plan (diagram, materials). Create (build a prototype) → Test (measure) → Improve (fix and retest). It is a loop: after Improve, test again.

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  1. 1.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) think of wild ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) define the problem
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  7. 7.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  9. 9.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Ask
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) redesign after testing (c) build the model (d) make it better, retest
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) make it better, retest (c) dream up possible fixes (d) brainstorm many ideas
  14. 14.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  17. 17.True or false: to list the materials is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) pick the build order (c) try it out (d) think of wild ideas
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) try it out (c) ask who will use it (d) think of wild ideas
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  27. 27.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  29. 29.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  36. 36.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  40. 40.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. Ask
  3. find the limits
  4. define the problem
  5. Improve
  6. Improve
  7. True
  8. Imagine
  9. False
  10. Improve
  11. measure its performance
  12. Imagine
  13. make it better, retest
  14. Plan
  15. Create
  16. Create
  17. False
  18. think of wild ideas
  19. Ask
  20. Ask
  21. Plan
  22. Ask
  23. Create
  24. Create
  25. ask who will use it
  26. Ask
  27. False
  28. Plan
  29. False
  30. Ask
  31. Test
  32. Test
  33. Ask
  34. False
  35. Plan
  36. True
  37. Imagine
  38. Imagine
  39. build the model
  40. False

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