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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 481 · 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 brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) think of wild ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  6. 6.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) measure its performance (c) make it better, retest (d) brainstorm many ideas
  9. 9.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) redesign after testing (d) check it against goals
  13. 13.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make a prototype (c) fix the weak part (d) list the materials
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) check it against goals
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) list the materials (c) make a prototype (d) find the limits
  23. 23.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) try it out
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) ask who will use it (c) check it against goals (d) build the model
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  30. 30.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) redesign after testing (c) define the problem (d) make a prototype
  34. 34.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  40. 40.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Test
  3. draw a labelled diagram
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. False
  7. Imagine
  8. make it better, retest
  9. False
  10. Ask
  11. Imagine
  12. redesign after testing
  13. no, it repeats
  14. Imagine
  15. Ask
  16. Imagine
  17. list the materials
  18. check it against goals
  19. Test
  20. Create
  21. Improve
  22. find the limits
  23. True
  24. True
  25. define the problem
  26. Create
  27. build the model
  28. Improve
  29. Plan
  30. True
  31. False
  32. Plan
  33. make a prototype
  34. True
  35. Ask
  36. Plan
  37. False
  38. Ask
  39. Plan
  40. False

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