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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 608 · 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 comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  2. 2.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  4. 4.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  5. 5.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) dream up possible fixes (c) try it out (d) ask who will use it
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  9. 9.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  13. 13.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  15. 15.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) draw a labelled diagram
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) list the materials (d) make it better, retest
  20. 20.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  21. 21.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) build the model
  24. 24.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  26. 26.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  29. 29.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) try it out (d) list the materials
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) try it out (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) pick the build order (d) build the model
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  40. 40.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. True
  3. Imagine
  4. Improve
  5. False
  6. Create
  7. ask who will use it
  8. Improve
  9. True
  10. no, it repeats
  11. Improve
  12. Ask
  13. True
  14. Create
  15. False
  16. Ask
  17. draw a labelled diagram
  18. Test
  19. think of wild ideas
  20. Plan
  21. False
  22. Plan
  23. dream up possible fixes
  24. False
  25. Plan
  26. False
  27. Imagine
  28. Test
  29. False
  30. Ask
  31. follow the plan to build
  32. try it out
  33. Ask
  34. Plan
  35. Plan
  36. make it better, retest
  37. Plan
  38. Imagine
  39. Ask
  40. False

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