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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 92 · 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 is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) find the limits (c) make it better, retest (d) think of wild ideas
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) build the model (d) redesign after testing
  7. 7.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make a prototype (d) follow the plan to build
  9. 9.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  11. 11.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  15. 15.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) redesign after testing (d) draw a labelled diagram
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) follow the plan to build (c) find the limits (d) check it against goals
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make a prototype (c) make it better, retest (d) brainstorm many ideas
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) find the limits (c) define the problem (d) measure its performance
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) think of wild ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  35. 35.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  38. 38.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Test
  3. Ask
  4. Improve
  5. think of wild ideas
  6. brainstorm many ideas
  7. True
  8. draw a labelled diagram
  9. False
  10. Create
  11. Ask
  12. Ask
  13. Ask
  14. Improve
  15. False
  16. Create
  17. build the model
  18. Improve
  19. find the limits
  20. Ask
  21. Plan
  22. Create
  23. Test
  24. Imagine
  25. Plan
  26. Ask
  27. make it better, retest
  28. measure its performance
  29. Plan
  30. ask who will use it
  31. Plan
  32. Ask
  33. Plan
  34. Ask
  35. True
  36. Plan
  37. Create
  38. True
  39. Improve
  40. Ask

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