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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 595 · 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.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) make a prototype (c) find the limits (d) draw a labelled diagram
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  5. 5.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) ask who will use it (c) build the model (d) redesign after testing
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) define the problem
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  12. 12.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  20. 20.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  21. 21.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  23. 23.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) find the limits (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  26. 26.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  28. 28.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) list the materials (c) make it better, retest (d) measure its performance
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  31. 31.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Imagine
  3. find the limits
  4. Ask
  5. no, it repeats
  6. ask who will use it
  7. Plan
  8. Imagine
  9. define the problem
  10. Plan
  11. Imagine
  12. True
  13. Test
  14. Ask
  15. Ask
  16. Plan
  17. Imagine
  18. Improve
  19. Test
  20. Ask
  21. Improve
  22. Ask
  23. False
  24. True
  25. pick the build order
  26. False
  27. Create
  28. Plan
  29. make a prototype
  30. Plan
  31. False
  32. False
  33. Plan
  34. Test
  35. Ask
  36. Test
  37. Create
  38. Plan
  39. Imagine
  40. Imagine

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