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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 958 · 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: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  3. 3.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) think of wild ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) make it better, retest
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) ask who will use it (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make it better, retest
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  12. 12.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) fix the weak part (d) follow the plan to build
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  17. 17.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  19. 19.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) make a prototype (c) list the materials (d) ask who will use it
  21. 21.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  23. 23.True or false: to list the materials is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) think of wild ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) define the problem
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  26. 26.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  31. 31.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  34. 34.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) try it out (c) follow the plan to build (d) measure its performance
  39. 39.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create

Answer key

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

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