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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 525 · 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) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) define the problem (c) pick the build order (d) brainstorm many ideas
  3. 3.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) follow the plan to build (c) measure its performance (d) brainstorm many ideas
  5. 5.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) measure its performance (c) ask who will use it (d) fix the weak part
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) ask who will use it (c) check it against goals (d) think of wild ideas
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  17. 17.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) list the materials (c) build the model (d) define the problem
  21. 21.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) ask who will use it
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  24. 24.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  27. 27.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  29. 29.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) find the limits (c) fix the weak part (d) dream up possible fixes
  31. 31.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  39. 39.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. define the problem
  3. Improve
  4. draw a labelled diagram
  5. True
  6. follow the plan to build
  7. Improve
  8. Imagine
  9. ask who will use it
  10. Ask
  11. Imagine
  12. Ask
  13. Imagine
  14. Create
  15. check it against goals
  16. Improve
  17. True
  18. Test
  19. Ask
  20. build the model
  21. True
  22. redesign after testing
  23. brainstorm many ideas
  24. True
  25. Ask
  26. Imagine
  27. False
  28. Create
  29. True
  30. find the limits
  31. False
  32. Plan
  33. Ask
  34. Test
  35. Plan
  36. Ask
  37. Plan
  38. Create
  39. False
  40. Ask

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