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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 894 · 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 “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) fix the weak part (c) redesign after testing (d) list the materials
  3. 3.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) think of wild ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) follow the plan to build
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) define the problem
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) list the materials (d) dream up possible fixes
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) build the model (c) ask who will use it (d) measure its performance
  20. 20.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  23. 23.True or false: to pick the build order is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  27. 27.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  31. 31.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  32. 32.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  40. 40.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. list the materials
  3. False
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. Ask
  7. Ask
  8. Plan
  9. Create
  10. Imagine
  11. Ask
  12. define the problem
  13. think of wild ideas
  14. brainstorm many ideas
  15. Imagine
  16. Imagine
  17. Ask
  18. dream up possible fixes
  19. measure its performance
  20. False
  21. True
  22. Imagine
  23. False
  24. Improve
  25. Ask
  26. Create
  27. True
  28. False
  29. Ask
  30. Ask
  31. Plan
  32. Improve
  33. Create
  34. draw a labelled diagram
  35. Imagine
  36. Test
  37. Plan
  38. Improve
  39. Ask
  40. True

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