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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 785 · 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, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  4. 4.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  5. 5.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  9. 9.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  11. 11.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) pick the build order (c) try it out (d) follow the plan to build
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make it better, retest (c) redesign after testing (d) find the limits
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  16. 16.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  19. 19.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  22. 22.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) ask who will use it (c) fix the weak part (d) brainstorm many ideas
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  26. 26.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) list the materials (c) find the limits (d) try it out
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) ask who will use it (c) try it out (d) think of wild ideas
  31. 31.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  33. 33.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) redesign after testing (c) dream up possible fixes (d) find the limits
  38. 38.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) redesign after testing (d) list the materials
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan

Answer key

  1. Test
  2. Create
  3. Imagine
  4. Improve
  5. True
  6. Ask
  7. Improve
  8. Ask
  9. False
  10. Improve
  11. True
  12. False
  13. follow the plan to build
  14. find the limits
  15. brainstorm many ideas
  16. True
  17. Plan
  18. Imagine
  19. True
  20. Create
  21. Test
  22. False
  23. dream up possible fixes
  24. fix the weak part
  25. Test
  26. True
  27. Ask
  28. try it out
  29. Improve
  30. think of wild ideas
  31. False
  32. Plan
  33. Plan
  34. Ask
  35. Imagine
  36. redesign after testing
  37. build the model
  38. no, it repeats
  39. list the materials
  40. Plan

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