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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 245 · 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.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) find the limits
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  3. 3.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) redesign after testing
  6. 6.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  7. 7.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  13. 13.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  16. 16.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) find the limits (c) check it against goals (d) make it better, retest
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  21. 21.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) redesign after testing (c) ask who will use it (d) make a prototype
  26. 26.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) ask who will use it (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) redesign after testing
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) try it out (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) define the problem
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  33. 33.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) define the problem (c) build the model (d) redesign after testing
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) follow the plan to build (d) dream up possible fixes
  37. 37.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) follow the plan to build (d) measure its performance
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. think of wild ideas
  2. Ask
  3. True
  4. Test
  5. redesign after testing
  6. Plan
  7. True
  8. Improve
  9. Ask
  10. Ask
  11. Create
  12. Improve
  13. False
  14. Ask
  15. Create
  16. False
  17. Imagine
  18. Imagine
  19. find the limits
  20. Imagine
  21. True
  22. False
  23. True
  24. Ask
  25. make a prototype
  26. False
  27. brainstorm many ideas
  28. list the materials
  29. Plan
  30. define the problem
  31. Create
  32. Ask
  33. True
  34. Improve
  35. build the model
  36. make it better, retest
  37. False
  38. Ask
  39. follow the plan to build
  40. Plan

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