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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 996 · 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: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  2. 2.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) ask who will use it
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) check it against goals (d) pick the build order
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  11. 11.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) redesign after testing (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  16. 16.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  18. 18.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) ask who will use it (d) make it better, retest
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  27. 27.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  29. 29.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) try it out (c) list the materials (d) think of wild ideas
  31. 31.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) build the model (c) redesign after testing (d) find the limits
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  34. 34.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) dream up possible fixes (c) follow the plan to build (d) find the limits
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  38. 38.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. True
  3. Ask
  4. Create
  5. Improve
  6. ask who will use it
  7. Ask
  8. Imagine
  9. check it against goals
  10. Ask
  11. True
  12. Imagine
  13. think of wild ideas
  14. Test
  15. Ask
  16. False
  17. Improve
  18. True
  19. True
  20. False
  21. False
  22. Imagine
  23. Imagine
  24. brainstorm many ideas
  25. Ask
  26. Plan
  27. False
  28. Test
  29. False
  30. list the materials
  31. Plan
  32. redesign after testing
  33. Plan
  34. Ask
  35. follow the plan to build
  36. Imagine
  37. Improve
  38. True
  39. False
  40. no, it repeats

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