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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 252 · 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 design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) redesign after testing (c) ask who will use it (d) dream up possible fixes
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) follow the plan to build (c) define the problem (d) pick the build order
  6. 6.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  8. 8.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) ask who will use it (c) build the model (d) make it better, retest
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  14. 14.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) think of wild ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) follow the plan to build
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  18. 18.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) make a prototype (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  21. 21.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) build the model (c) check it against goals (d) make a prototype
  25. 25.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  29. 29.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) redesign after testing (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  32. 32.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) list the materials (c) make it better, retest (d) follow the plan to build
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) redesign after testing (c) find the limits (d) draw a labelled diagram
  39. 39.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) build the model (c) make it better, retest (d) find the limits

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. make a prototype
  3. Improve
  4. Test
  5. define the problem
  6. False
  7. Imagine
  8. True
  9. Imagine
  10. Imagine
  11. ask who will use it
  12. Create
  13. Plan
  14. False
  15. Improve
  16. draw a labelled diagram
  17. Plan
  18. Plan
  19. dream up possible fixes
  20. Ask
  21. True
  22. Plan
  23. Ask
  24. check it against goals
  25. True
  26. Test
  27. Ask
  28. Ask
  29. Ask
  30. try it out
  31. Test
  32. True
  33. Improve
  34. False
  35. make it better, retest
  36. Improve
  37. Ask
  38. follow the plan to build
  39. False
  40. list the materials

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