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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 648 · 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) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  2. 2.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) pick the build order (c) dream up possible fixes (d) redesign after testing
  4. 4.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔄 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
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  10. 10.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: to measure its performance is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  19. 19.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) ask who will use it (d) pick the build order
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) check it against goals (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) redesign after testing
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) make a prototype (c) try it out (d) fix the weak part
  23. 23.True or false: to make a prototype is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) list the materials (d) define the problem
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) try it out (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) ask who will use it
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to pick the build order is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  35. 35.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  38. 38.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) find the limits (c) think of wild ideas (d) measure its performance

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. True
  3. dream up possible fixes
  4. True
  5. no, it repeats
  6. Ask
  7. Plan
  8. Improve
  9. Improve
  10. False
  11. False
  12. False
  13. Test
  14. Test
  15. Ask
  16. Create
  17. Create
  18. Improve
  19. True
  20. pick the build order
  21. draw a labelled diagram
  22. try it out
  23. False
  24. Imagine
  25. define the problem
  26. ask who will use it
  27. Create
  28. False
  29. False
  30. Plan
  31. Test
  32. Plan
  33. Imagine
  34. Improve
  35. Improve
  36. Plan
  37. Ask
  38. False
  39. redesign after testing
  40. measure its performance

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