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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 927 · 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: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) pick the build order (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) check it against goals
  9. 9.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  12. 12.🔄 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
  13. 13.True or false: to pick the build order is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  16. 16.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) measure its performance (b) redesign after testing (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  18. 18.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) measure its performance
  24. 24.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Improve
  25. 25.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make it better, retest (d) find the limits
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) make a prototype (d) list the materials
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  34. 34.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  36. 36.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) find the limits (c) define the problem (d) try it out
  38. 38.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: to list the materials is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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