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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 677 · 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.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) define the problem (c) ask who will use it (d) brainstorm many ideas
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  4. 4.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  7. 7.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  10. 10.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) try it out (c) list the materials (d) find the limits
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  20. 20.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  22. 22.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) find the limits (d) pick the build order
  24. 24.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make a prototype (c) redesign after testing (d) ask who will use it
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) pick the build order (c) fix the weak part (d) brainstorm many ideas
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  35. 35.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create

Answer key

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

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