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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 902 · 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: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  4. 4.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) try it out (c) define the problem (d) fix the weak part
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 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
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) pick the build order (d) fix the weak part
  14. 14.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  18. 18.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  24. 24.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) dream up possible fixes (c) define the problem (d) fix the weak part
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  29. 29.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) follow the plan to build (d) think of wild ideas
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) define the problem (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part
  34. 34.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  35. 35.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) check it against goals (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask

Answer key

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

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