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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 578 · 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) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) redesign after testing (c) make it better, retest (d) try it out
  4. 4.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  6. 6.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) list the materials (c) check it against goals (d) find the limits
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  10. 10.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  12. 12.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  16. 16.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make a prototype (c) try it out (d) think of wild ideas
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  19. 19.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  21. 21.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  25. 25.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  33. 33.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) build the model (c) check it against goals (d) make it better, retest
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) build the model (c) ask who will use it (d) follow the plan to build
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) find the limits
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) list the materials

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. build the model
  3. try it out
  4. False
  5. dream up possible fixes
  6. True
  7. find the limits
  8. Improve
  9. Ask
  10. True
  11. Improve
  12. Plan
  13. Ask
  14. Test
  15. Plan
  16. False
  17. think of wild ideas
  18. Plan
  19. True
  20. Test
  21. False
  22. True
  23. Plan
  24. Imagine
  25. False
  26. Ask
  27. Ask
  28. Test
  29. Imagine
  30. Imagine
  31. Imagine
  32. Imagine
  33. True
  34. True
  35. False
  36. make it better, retest
  37. Ask
  38. ask who will use it
  39. check it against goals
  40. list the materials

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