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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 283 · 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 “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) pick the build order (c) list the materials (d) ask who will use it
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  6. 6.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) dream up possible fixes (c) ask who will use it (d) try it out
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) pick the build order (d) draw a labelled diagram
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) define the problem (c) make a prototype (d) ask who will use it
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  17. 17.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) try it out (c) make a prototype (d) ask who will use it
  20. 20.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) check it against goals (c) think of wild ideas (d) make it better, retest
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  23. 23.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) pick the build order (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  26. 26.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  29. 29.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) make a prototype
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  35. 35.True or false: to measure its performance is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) check it against goals (d) find the limits
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) follow the plan to build (c) measure its performance (d) brainstorm many ideas

Answer key

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

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