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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 769 · 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 FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) list the materials
  6. 6.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) build the model (d) follow the plan to build
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  10. 10.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) pick the build order (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  20. 20.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  22. 22.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  24. 24.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  26. 26.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  30. 30.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) check it against goals (c) build the model (d) list the materials
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) dream up possible fixes (c) ask who will use it (d) follow the plan to build
  35. 35.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) make it better, retest (d) define the problem
  37. 37.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  38. 38.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) brainstorm many ideas
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test

Answer key

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

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