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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 973 · 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, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  2. 2.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) check it against goals (c) build the model (d) find the limits
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) measure its performance
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  10. 10.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  12. 12.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) find the limits (c) ask who will use it (d) redesign after testing
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  18. 18.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) build the model (d) draw a labelled diagram
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) dream up possible fixes (c) define the problem (d) list the materials
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  25. 25.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make it better, retest (c) check it against goals (d) brainstorm many ideas
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) think of wild ideas (d) build the model
  34. 34.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  37. 37.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  39. 39.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) try it out (c) list the materials (d) think of wild ideas

Answer key

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

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