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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 619 · 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.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  6. 6.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) build the model (d) pick the build order
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) make it better, retest (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) try it out (d) think of wild ideas
  14. 14.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) give up
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  16. 16.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) find the limits (c) list the materials (d) define the problem
  22. 22.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  25. 25.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) redesign after testing (c) try it out (d) dream up possible fixes
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  31. 31.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  35. 35.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  37. 37.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) ask who will use it
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. define the problem
  3. Test
  4. Test
  5. Plan
  6. True
  7. build the model
  8. Create
  9. Plan
  10. Ask
  11. Plan
  12. follow the plan to build
  13. think of wild ideas
  14. Improve
  15. Imagine
  16. False
  17. Imagine
  18. Improve
  19. Ask
  20. Imagine
  21. dream up possible fixes
  22. Plan
  23. Create
  24. Plan
  25. no, it repeats
  26. pick the build order
  27. Improve
  28. Plan
  29. Ask
  30. Imagine
  31. True
  32. Ask
  33. Ask
  34. Improve
  35. True
  36. Create
  37. True
  38. True
  39. measure its performance
  40. Ask

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