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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 507 · 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 list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  2. 2.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) build the model
  4. 4.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) think of wild ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) define the problem
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) check it against goals (c) think of wild ideas (d) brainstorm many ideas
  14. 14.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  17. 17.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) make a prototype
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) follow the plan to build
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  21. 21.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) try it out (c) list the materials (d) find the limits
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make a prototype (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part
  26. 26.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) define the problem (c) make it better, retest (d) make a prototype
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  31. 31.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) find the limits (c) fix the weak part (d) try it out
  35. 35.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  36. 36.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  38. 38.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  40. 40.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. False
  3. dream up possible fixes
  4. False
  5. Imagine
  6. Improve
  7. Ask
  8. Imagine
  9. no, it repeats
  10. define the problem
  11. Improve
  12. Imagine
  13. ask who will use it
  14. False
  15. Ask
  16. Ask
  17. False
  18. make a prototype
  19. redesign after testing
  20. Create
  21. True
  22. False
  23. Ask
  24. list the materials
  25. fix the weak part
  26. Improve
  27. Ask
  28. Ask
  29. think of wild ideas
  30. Create
  31. False
  32. Plan
  33. Imagine
  34. find the limits
  35. Plan
  36. False
  37. Create
  38. False
  39. Plan
  40. True

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