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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 770 · 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 redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  6. 6.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) fix the weak part (c) dream up possible fixes (d) build the model
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  13. 13.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) follow the plan to build (d) try it out
  17. 17.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make a prototype (c) check it against goals (d) draw a labelled diagram
  19. 19.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) define the problem (c) make a prototype (d) pick the build order
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) ask who will use it (d) make a prototype
  26. 26.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  30. 30.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  32. 32.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  34. 34.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  37. 37.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  39. 39.🔄 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
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Plan
  3. Improve
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. False
  7. Imagine
  8. fix the weak part
  9. Ask
  10. Improve
  11. Test
  12. Plan
  13. True
  14. True
  15. dream up possible fixes
  16. follow the plan to build
  17. False
  18. check it against goals
  19. False
  20. Imagine
  21. define the problem
  22. Test
  23. Imagine
  24. Plan
  25. make it better, retest
  26. False
  27. False
  28. Create
  29. Imagine
  30. Improve
  31. Create
  32. True
  33. Test
  34. True
  35. Create
  36. Ask
  37. Plan
  38. Create
  39. no, it repeats
  40. Plan

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