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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 948 · 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: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) try it out (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) follow the plan to build (c) list the materials (d) try it out
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  8. 8.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  11. 11.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) measure its performance (c) check it against goals (d) build the model
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) redesign after testing (c) check it against goals (d) pick the build order
  15. 15.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) check it against goals (c) list the materials (d) pick the build order
  23. 23.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  26. 26.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  29. 29.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) dream up possible fixes (c) redesign after testing (d) measure its performance
  32. 32.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  35. 35.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  39. 39.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Ask
  3. Test
  4. ask who will use it
  5. try it out
  6. Imagine
  7. Ask
  8. True
  9. Imagine
  10. Create
  11. True
  12. Imagine
  13. build the model
  14. make a prototype
  15. False
  16. True
  17. Improve
  18. Create
  19. Imagine
  20. Improve
  21. Imagine
  22. find the limits
  23. False
  24. Test
  25. Ask
  26. Plan
  27. Ask
  28. Imagine
  29. no, it repeats
  30. Improve
  31. redesign after testing
  32. False
  33. Test
  34. Plan
  35. True
  36. True
  37. Create
  38. Ask
  39. True
  40. True

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