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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 972 · 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) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) check it against goals (c) pick the build order (d) fix the weak part
  3. 3.True or false: to measure its performance is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) redesign after testing (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) follow the plan to build (d) dream up possible fixes
  13. 13.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  16. 16.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) fix the weak part (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  19. 19.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  21. 21.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  26. 26.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) dream up possible fixes (d) pick the build order
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  33. 33.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔄 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
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) define the problem
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) pick the build order (c) follow the plan to build (d) define the problem
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) define the problem (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) fix the weak part (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) build the model

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. check it against goals
  3. False
  4. True
  5. Plan
  6. Imagine
  7. Imagine
  8. Plan
  9. Plan
  10. ask who will use it
  11. Plan
  12. dream up possible fixes
  13. True
  14. Plan
  15. Create
  16. True
  17. True
  18. make a prototype
  19. False
  20. Ask
  21. False
  22. Plan
  23. Ask
  24. Improve
  25. Imagine
  26. Improve
  27. Imagine
  28. pick the build order
  29. Ask
  30. Ask
  31. Imagine
  32. Improve
  33. False
  34. no, it repeats
  35. define the problem
  36. make it better, retest
  37. draw a labelled diagram
  38. Create
  39. Create
  40. build the model

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