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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 837 · 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 ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  4. 4.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  6. 6.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) follow the plan to build (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) ask who will use it
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  10. 10.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  12. 12.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) check it against goals (c) make a prototype (d) find the limits
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) think of wild ideas (c) list the materials (d) make a prototype
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) redesign after testing
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) list the materials (c) find the limits (d) make it better, retest
  23. 23.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) try it out (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  26. 26.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  28. 28.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  30. 30.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  32. 32.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) make a prototype (d) make it better, retest
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Ask
  3. Plan
  4. False
  5. Improve
  6. False
  7. Plan
  8. ask who will use it
  9. Ask
  10. True
  11. Create
  12. True
  13. Plan
  14. Improve
  15. Imagine
  16. make a prototype
  17. Ask
  18. list the materials
  19. Imagine
  20. redesign after testing
  21. Plan
  22. find the limits
  23. False
  24. Imagine
  25. try it out
  26. False
  27. Plan
  28. False
  29. Ask
  30. False
  31. Ask
  32. Improve
  33. brainstorm many ideas
  34. Imagine
  35. Test
  36. Plan
  37. Ask
  38. Ask
  39. Create
  40. True

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