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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 876 · 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 build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  3. 3.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  7. 7.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) make a prototype
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) measure its performance (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) make a prototype
  13. 13.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  16. 16.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) make a prototype (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) think of wild ideas (c) check it against goals (d) follow the plan to build
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) ask who will use it (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  23. 23.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) think of wild ideas (d) try it out
  25. 25.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  34. 34.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  39. 39.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) define the problem (c) dream up possible fixes (d) follow the plan to build

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. Plan
  3. False
  4. Imagine
  5. Plan
  6. Ask
  7. False
  8. Ask
  9. Improve
  10. brainstorm many ideas
  11. Test
  12. make a prototype
  13. False
  14. Improve
  15. Test
  16. False
  17. Ask
  18. define the problem
  19. find the limits
  20. Imagine
  21. Imagine
  22. make it better, retest
  23. True
  24. try it out
  25. False
  26. True
  27. Improve
  28. False
  29. Improve
  30. Imagine
  31. Ask
  32. Create
  33. Test
  34. False
  35. Create
  36. Test
  37. Plan
  38. Ask
  39. False
  40. dream up possible fixes

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