What is Engineering?

Engineering is___________

• Making things that already exist BETTER in some way

• Developing a New idea

• Solving a problem by creating something

• re-making something exactly the same

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Building a fort and adding an elevator and windows that weren't there before is engineering.

• True

• False

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Anytime you are trying to find a solution or create a design, you can use the engineering design process.

• True

• False

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The Engineering Design Process is about creating NEW solutions to problems.

• True

• False

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Brainstorming and coming up with many possible solutions is the 2nd step in the Engineering Design Process.

• True

• False

The steps that engineers use to guide them to find a solution to a problem

• Engineering

• Scientific Investigations

• Engineering Design Process

• Constraints

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Engineers are people who design and build things to solve _____

• riddles
• puzzles
• crosswords
• problems

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

• steps
• problems
• solutions
• tests

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Someone who wants to know how and why things work.  They also design and build things.

• scientist
• ME!
• Engineer

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What is the engineering design process used for

• To study something

• It's not used for anything

• To understand something

• To create something or to improve something.

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