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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 596 · 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, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) define the problem
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) dream up possible fixes (c) build the model (d) find the limits
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) make a prototype (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) measure its performance
  15. 15.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  19. 19.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) think of wild ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) build the model
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  28. 28.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  30. 30.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  35. 35.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  36. 36.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  39. 39.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test

Answer key

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

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