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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 509 · 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 make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  2. 2.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) measure its performance (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  5. 5.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) follow the plan to build (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) define the problem
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  11. 11.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  13. 13.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  17. 17.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  19. 19.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make a prototype (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  23. 23.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) try it out (c) ask who will use it (d) dream up possible fixes
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  26. 26.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) measure its performance (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) brainstorm many ideas
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  32. 32.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) try it out (c) redesign after testing (d) list the materials
  34. 34.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) redesign after testing (c) find the limits (d) ask who will use it
  37. 37.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  40. 40.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. False
  3. measure its performance
  4. Improve
  5. False
  6. define the problem
  7. Improve
  8. Plan
  9. Create
  10. no, it repeats
  11. False
  12. Create
  13. False
  14. True
  15. Ask
  16. Imagine
  17. False
  18. Test
  19. Improve
  20. False
  21. pick the build order
  22. Improve
  23. True
  24. dream up possible fixes
  25. Test
  26. False
  27. build the model
  28. Plan
  29. Imagine
  30. Ask
  31. Imagine
  32. True
  33. list the materials
  34. True
  35. Ask
  36. redesign after testing
  37. True
  38. Plan
  39. Create
  40. True

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