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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 763 · 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.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  5. 5.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) ask who will use it
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) check it against goals (c) build the model (d) pick the build order
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make it better, retest (c) find the limits (d) measure its performance
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  17. 17.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) define the problem (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) measure its performance
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) define the problem (c) find the limits (d) make it better, retest
  24. 24.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  26. 26.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) measure its performance (c) redesign after testing (d) find the limits
  31. 31.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  33. 33.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) list the materials

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Ask
  3. Test
  4. Ask
  5. Improve
  6. Improve
  7. follow the plan to build
  8. Plan
  9. build the model
  10. Improve
  11. find the limits
  12. Plan
  13. Ask
  14. Plan
  15. Ask
  16. Plan
  17. True
  18. True
  19. Imagine
  20. Ask
  21. define the problem
  22. Improve
  23. make it better, retest
  24. True
  25. Ask
  26. False
  27. False
  28. Ask
  29. False
  30. measure its performance
  31. False
  32. Create
  33. True
  34. brainstorm many ideas
  35. Ask
  36. Create
  37. Improve
  38. Imagine
  39. Plan
  40. redesign after testing

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