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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 879 · 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 “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  3. 3.🔄 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
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  14. 14.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) follow the plan to build (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  16. 16.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) measure its performance (c) fix the weak part (d) make a prototype
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) measure its performance (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  21. 21.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  23. 23.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  25. 25.True or false: to make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  29. 29.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) measure its performance (c) build the model (d) check it against goals
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  33. 33.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  34. 34.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  38. 38.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test

Answer key

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

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