Engineering Design Process Worksheet
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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
- 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
- 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
- 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
- 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
- 6.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
- 7.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
- 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
- 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
- 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
- 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
- 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) build the model (d) fix the weak part
- 14.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) check it against goals
- 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
- 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
- 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) fix the weak part (d) dream up possible fixes
- 18.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
- 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
- 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
- 21.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
- 22.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) follow the plan to build
- 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
- 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) fix the weak part (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) dream up possible fixes
- 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
- 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
- 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
- 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
- 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
- 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
- 31.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) make it better, retest (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
- 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) build the model
- 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
- 34.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) define the problem (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
- 35.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
- 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
- 37.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
- 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
- 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) measure its performance (d) make it better, retest
- 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
Answer key
- Ask
- no, it repeats
- Create
- Create
- Imagine
- Improve
- False
- True
- Plan
- Imagine
- Imagine
- Test
- build the model
- check it against goals
- Improve
- Ask
- dream up possible fixes
- Ask
- Ask
- Test
- False
- brainstorm many ideas
- Ask
- fix the weak part
- Improve
- Ask
- Imagine
- Test
- Ask
- Test
- make it better, retest
- find the limits
- Plan
- follow the plan to build
- True
- Plan
- False
- Ask
- measure its performance
- Improve
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