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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 641 · 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: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  6. 6.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  12. 12.True or false: to pick the build order is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) ask who will use it (c) define the problem (d) fix the weak part
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) build the model (c) think of wild ideas (d) make it better, retest
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  18. 18.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  24. 24.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  30. 30.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  33. 33.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Ask
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  35. 35.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) pick the build order (c) follow the plan to build (d) redesign after testing
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) dream up possible fixes (c) measure its performance (d) make a prototype
  38. 38.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) redesign after testing

Answer key

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

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