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