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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 814 · 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) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  3. 3.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  7. 7.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) ask who will use it (c) make a prototype (d) think of wild ideas
  20. 20.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) measure its performance (c) dream up possible fixes (d) build the model
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make a prototype (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) find the limits
  23. 23.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  26. 26.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  28. 28.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) make it better, retest (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) dream up possible fixes
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  31. 31.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make it better, retest (c) dream up possible fixes (d) ask who will use it
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) make a prototype (d) pick the build order
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) measure its performance (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  35. 35.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) build the model (d) define the problem
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask

Answer key

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

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