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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 965 · 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 LAST step? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) build the model (d) try it out
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  9. 9.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) give up
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) build the model
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  14. 14.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) dream up possible fixes (c) build the model (d) pick the build order
  17. 17.True or false: to measure its performance is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) measure its performance (c) think of wild ideas (d) dream up possible fixes
  19. 19.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) pick the build order (c) define the problem (d) make it better, retest
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) check it against goals (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  25. 25.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  27. 27.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  30. 30.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) measure its performance (d) ask who will use it
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  36. 36.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  40. 40.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. no, it repeats
  3. Plan
  4. brainstorm many ideas
  5. Ask
  6. Create
  7. Ask
  8. Ask
  9. Improve
  10. find the limits
  11. Test
  12. Imagine
  13. Plan
  14. True
  15. True
  16. dream up possible fixes
  17. False
  18. fix the weak part
  19. False
  20. define the problem
  21. Ask
  22. Imagine
  23. make it better, retest
  24. Imagine
  25. True
  26. Plan
  27. False
  28. pick the build order
  29. Improve
  30. True
  31. False
  32. list the materials
  33. Test
  34. Improve
  35. Improve
  36. True
  37. Ask
  38. Create
  39. Ask
  40. True

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