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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 798 · 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 “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  7. 7.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  11. 11.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  14. 14.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) redesign after testing (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  17. 17.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  19. 19.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) pick the build order (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) find the limits
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  28. 28.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) follow the plan to build (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  30. 30.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) ask who will use it
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  36. 36.True or false: to measure its performance is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  38. 38.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test

Answer key

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

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