← The engineering design process lesson New set →

Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 496 · 40 questions
TalentJR

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.

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

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. True
  3. False
  4. Plan
  5. Plan
  6. Ask
  7. True
  8. redesign after testing
  9. make it better, retest
  10. Imagine
  11. Imagine
  12. Improve
  13. fix the weak part
  14. Improve
  15. Ask
  16. Create
  17. Create
  18. think of wild ideas
  19. try it out
  20. Improve
  21. Ask
  22. draw a labelled diagram
  23. True
  24. Plan
  25. Imagine
  26. Imagine
  27. Test
  28. define the problem
  29. Plan
  30. Imagine
  31. Test
  32. list the materials
  33. Create
  34. make a prototype
  35. Imagine
  36. Ask
  37. Test
  38. True
  39. Ask
  40. build the model

Free engineering lessons, practice and worksheets at talentjr.in/engineering-for-kids