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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 649 · 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) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  3. 3.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) check it against goals (c) list the materials (d) fix the weak part
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) list the materials (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  10. 10.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  12. 12.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  17. 17.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) brainstorm many ideas
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  20. 20.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) redesign after testing
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) ask who will use it (c) fix the weak part (d) check it against goals
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make it better, retest (c) find the limits (d) pick the build order
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  31. 31.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  38. 38.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) redesign after testing (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask

Answer key

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

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