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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 705 · 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 “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  3. 3.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) try it out
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) ask who will use it (d) list the materials
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) try it out
  16. 16.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  19. 19.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  21. 21.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) dream up possible fixes (c) ask who will use it (d) redesign after testing
  24. 24.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  31. 31.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) find the limits (d) dream up possible fixes
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) make it better, retest (d) draw a labelled diagram
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  37. 37.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  39. 39.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Improve
  3. False
  4. Improve
  5. Ask
  6. Plan
  7. Ask
  8. no, it repeats
  9. Imagine
  10. Plan
  11. try it out
  12. Imagine
  13. Plan
  14. list the materials
  15. dream up possible fixes
  16. Improve
  17. Imagine
  18. Improve
  19. False
  20. Imagine
  21. False
  22. Ask
  23. redesign after testing
  24. True
  25. Ask
  26. Test
  27. Test
  28. Imagine
  29. Ask
  30. Improve
  31. False
  32. Test
  33. Ask
  34. find the limits
  35. draw a labelled diagram
  36. Ask
  37. False
  38. Ask
  39. False
  40. Ask

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