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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 83 · 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: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) ask who will use it (c) think of wild ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) think of wild ideas (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) find the limits
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) measure its performance (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) redesign after testing (c) ask who will use it (d) make a prototype
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  18. 18.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make it better, retest (d) check it against goals
  20. 20.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) measure its performance (c) pick the build order (d) brainstorm many ideas
  22. 22.True or false: to measure its performance is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) fix the weak part (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) try it out
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  25. 25.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  29. 29.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  31. 31.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  33. 33.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) define the problem (c) dream up possible fixes (d) follow the plan to build
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) pick the build order (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  36. 36.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Ask
  3. Imagine
  4. Imagine
  5. Create
  6. Improve
  7. ask who will use it
  8. Ask
  9. Imagine
  10. fix the weak part
  11. measure its performance
  12. Improve
  13. Plan
  14. Imagine
  15. make a prototype
  16. Ask
  17. Imagine
  18. False
  19. list the materials
  20. Plan
  21. find the limits
  22. False
  23. try it out
  24. Ask
  25. True
  26. Plan
  27. Plan
  28. Test
  29. Improve
  30. Improve
  31. True
  32. Create
  33. no, it repeats
  34. dream up possible fixes
  35. follow the plan to build
  36. False
  37. Ask
  38. Improve
  39. Improve
  40. Create

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