Crash Course Kids: The Engineering Process

Engineers are people who design and build things to solve _____

• riddles
• puzzles
• crosswords
• problems

When they're trying to solve a problem, engineers follow a series of _____

• steps
• problems
• solutions
• tests

When solving problems, the series of steps that engineers follow is called _____

• the engineering method
• the engineering process
• the engineering problem
• the scientific method

Before you can solve a problem, the first thing you have to do is _____

• define the problem
• design your solution
• build a protoype
• test your solution

In the 1800s, an engineer named Alexander Graham Bell invented _____

• the telegraph
• the telephone
• the television
• the telescope

Once you've figured out what problem you want to tackle, you need to _____

• do your research
• design your solution
• build a prototype
• test your solution

The chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel invented _____

• TNT
• dynamite
• ANFO
• plastic explosives

After your research is done, this is where you _____

• define the problem
• develop a possible solution
• build a prototype
• test your solution

In which step would you most likely get to draw?

• do your research
• design your solution
• build a prototype
• test your solution

Gustave Eiffel, who designed the famous Eiffel Tower in France, was _____

• a civil engineer
• a software engineer
• an aerospace engineer
• a chemical engineer