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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 755 · 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 is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  2. 2.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) think of wild ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  11. 11.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) define the problem (c) pick the build order (d) think of wild ideas
  13. 13.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Imagine
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make a prototype (c) try it out (d) brainstorm many ideas
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  19. 19.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  22. 22.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  23. 23.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) ask who will use it (d) redesign after testing
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) pick the build order (c) make a prototype (d) dream up possible fixes
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  34. 34.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) find the limits (c) try it out (d) make a prototype
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make it better, retest (d) define the problem
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) build the model (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  40. 40.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. True
  3. False
  4. Ask
  5. Plan
  6. pick the build order
  7. Create
  8. Ask
  9. Imagine
  10. Ask
  11. True
  12. define the problem
  13. Improve
  14. Plan
  15. Ask
  16. make a prototype
  17. Imagine
  18. Plan
  19. False
  20. Ask
  21. Plan
  22. Ask
  23. Plan
  24. Ask
  25. Ask
  26. Imagine
  27. brainstorm many ideas
  28. Improve
  29. no, it repeats
  30. make it better, retest
  31. Plan
  32. Imagine
  33. Improve
  34. False
  35. find the limits
  36. Create
  37. Ask
  38. measure its performance
  39. redesign after testing
  40. True

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