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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 777 · 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 “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) measure its performance (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  6. 6.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  9. 9.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  13. 13.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  14. 14.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  16. 16.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) define the problem
  20. 20.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) redesign after testing (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  22. 22.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  23. 23.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  25. 25.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) find the limits (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  27. 27.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) fix the weak part (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) try it out
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  31. 31.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) make it better, retest (c) ask who will use it (d) think of wild ideas
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) measure its performance (c) find the limits (d) fix the weak part
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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