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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 480 · 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 Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) find the limits
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  3. 3.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  10. 10.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  16. 16.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) try it out (c) ask who will use it (d) think of wild ideas
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) draw a labelled diagram
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) redesign after testing (c) try it out (d) define the problem
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) list the materials (c) follow the plan to build (d) find the limits
  25. 25.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  31. 31.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) ask who will use it (c) list the materials (d) think of wild ideas
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) dream up possible fixes (c) measure its performance (d) fix the weak part
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) define the problem (c) dream up possible fixes (d) list the materials
  36. 36.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  38. 38.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. find the limits
  2. Create
  3. True
  4. False
  5. Plan
  6. Imagine
  7. Ask
  8. Create
  9. Imagine
  10. True
  11. Imagine
  12. Improve
  13. Plan
  14. Ask
  15. draw a labelled diagram
  16. False
  17. Imagine
  18. ask who will use it
  19. make a prototype
  20. try it out
  21. Ask
  22. Plan
  23. Improve
  24. check it against goals
  25. True
  26. False
  27. Ask
  28. Improve
  29. Ask
  30. Ask
  31. Improve
  32. think of wild ideas
  33. Ask
  34. fix the weak part
  35. define the problem
  36. True
  37. Imagine
  38. False
  39. Improve
  40. True

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