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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 710 · 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 design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) try it out (c) fix the weak part (d) check it against goals
  4. 4.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) redesign after testing (d) build the model
  10. 10.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) think of wild ideas (c) list the materials (d) find the limits
  14. 14.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) check it against goals
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  22. 22.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  24. 24.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  26. 26.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) try it out (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) redesign after testing
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) follow the plan to build (d) list the materials
  32. 32.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  34. 34.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) list the materials (d) define the problem
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) follow the plan to build (d) ask who will use it

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Imagine
  3. fix the weak part
  4. True
  5. Plan
  6. Plan
  7. Plan
  8. Imagine
  9. build the model
  10. True
  11. Test
  12. Improve
  13. think of wild ideas
  14. no, it repeats
  15. Create
  16. check it against goals
  17. Test
  18. Ask
  19. Imagine
  20. True
  21. Imagine
  22. False
  23. Imagine
  24. Improve
  25. Improve
  26. False
  27. Ask
  28. brainstorm many ideas
  29. Create
  30. Plan
  31. ask who will use it
  32. False
  33. Plan
  34. False
  35. Ask
  36. Improve
  37. list the materials
  38. Test
  39. Ask
  40. follow the plan to build

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