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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 628 · 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 FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) find the limits (c) ask who will use it (d) brainstorm many ideas
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  10. 10.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  13. 13.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) think of wild ideas (d) define the problem
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) define the problem (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  21. 21.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) try it out (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  24. 24.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  28. 28.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  31. 31.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) make it better, retest (c) dream up possible fixes (d) follow the plan to build
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) try it out (d) build the model
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) pick the build order
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  36. 36.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) pick the build order (c) fix the weak part (d) draw a labelled diagram
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) measure its performance (c) make a prototype (d) list the materials

Answer key

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

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