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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 261 · 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.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  5. 5.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  8. 8.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 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
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  12. 12.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) measure its performance (d) list the materials
  15. 15.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  19. 19.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) check it against goals (d) follow the plan to build
  21. 21.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) dream up possible fixes (c) try it out (d) make a prototype
  26. 26.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) think of wild ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) check it against goals
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  29. 29.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  31. 31.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make it better, retest
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) build the model (c) list the materials (d) brainstorm many ideas
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  35. 35.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) define the problem (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make it better, retest
  39. 39.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Test
  3. Imagine
  4. Ask
  5. Improve
  6. Create
  7. Improve
  8. True
  9. no, it repeats
  10. Test
  11. Imagine
  12. Ask
  13. Test
  14. list the materials
  15. True
  16. Plan
  17. Improve
  18. Improve
  19. False
  20. follow the plan to build
  21. True
  22. Ask
  23. Ask
  24. Imagine
  25. pick the build order
  26. False
  27. ask who will use it
  28. Ask
  29. True
  30. Imagine
  31. False
  32. find the limits
  33. try it out
  34. Improve
  35. False
  36. False
  37. dream up possible fixes
  38. think of wild ideas
  39. True
  40. Plan

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