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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 620 · 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) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  5. 5.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) find the limits (c) fix the weak part (d) brainstorm many ideas
  11. 11.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) dream up possible fixes (c) define the problem (d) measure its performance
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) ask who will use it (c) list the materials (d) think of wild ideas
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) define the problem (d) pick the build order
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) find the limits (c) redesign after testing (d) fix the weak part
  23. 23.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  25. 25.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) find the limits (c) list the materials (d) make it better, retest
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) brainstorm many ideas
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) find the limits (d) check it against goals
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  37. 37.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  39. 39.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask

Answer key

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

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