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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 693 · 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.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  3. 3.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) ask who will use it (c) think of wild ideas (d) pick the build order
  5. 5.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  6. 6.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) find the limits (c) think of wild ideas (d) pick the build order
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  13. 13.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) follow the plan to build (c) ask who will use it (d) fix the weak part
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  18. 18.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: to check it against goals is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  21. 21.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  25. 25.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) ask who will use it (c) build the model (d) try it out
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) ask who will use it (c) try it out (d) redesign after testing
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  34. 34.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) ask who will use it (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  36. 36.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) list the materials (d) try it out
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) fix the weak part (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas

Answer key

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

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