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Concepts Of Engineering And Technology
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1. Allowed the substitution of animal power for human power.
Water
Models
Domestication of animals
Trade- off
2. Arguably the most important engineering achievement.
Trade- off
The steam engine
Artifact
Iterative
3. A standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principal for evaluating or testing something
Criteria
Standards
Smelting and metal work
Pragmatic
4. An object produced or shaped by human craft.
Constraint
System
Artifact
Society
5. A system of moral principals
Computing
Ethics
Culture
Constraint
6. Human factors engineering - an applied science that coordinates the design of devices - systems - and physical working conditions with the capacities and requirements of a worker.
The steam engine
Ergonomics
Artifact
Pragmatic
7. The fundamental facilities and systems serving a country - city - or area - as transportation and communication systems - power plants - and schools.
Engineering
Many important innovations
Trade- off
Infrastructure
8. The domestication of plants and animals.
Domestication of animals
Entrepreneur
Artifact
one of the earliest technologies
9. Led to an increase in the ownership of private property.
System
Entrepreneur
Rule of law
Iterative
10. A person who organizes and manages any enterprise - especially a business - usually with considerable initiative and risk
Use of fire
Entrepreneur
Inventions
Capital
11. Important technology
The steam engine
Entrepreneur
Infrastructure
Use of fire
12. Became a widespread way of developing resources
Criteria
Colonization
Computing
Pragmatic
13. Knowledge of principals and causes; especially - such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena - the nature - constitution - and forces of matter - the qualities and functions of living tissues - etc.
Pragmatic
Science
this led to the devlopement of steel as an alloy of iron and carbon
Computing
14. A representation - generally in miniature - to show the construction or appearance of something; a simplified representation of a system or phenomenon - as in the sciences or economics - with any hypothesis required to describe the system or explain
Models
Artifact
Criteria
Pragmatic
15. A new way of doing something; an improvement on an existing form - composition or processes.
Pragmatic
Engineering
Water
Innovation
16. The iron age
Models
Ergonomics
Computing
this led to the devlopement of steel as an alloy of iron and carbon
17. Flourished during the industrial revolution
this led to the devlopement of steel as an alloy of iron and carbon
Alloy
Mills and foundries
Entrepreneur
18. An assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole
System
Economics
Water
Artifact
19. The practical application of science to commerce or industry. Generally takes the form of an artifact.
Technology
Colonization
Use of fire
Computing
20. Originally - the art of managing machines; in its modern and extended sense - the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; ABET: 'The profession in which knowledge of the mathemat
Engineering
solid wate disposal
Models
Mills and foundries
21. A substance composed of two or more metals - or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal - intimately mixed - as by fusion or Electro- deposition.
System
Economics
Alloy
Technology
22. A highly structured system of human organization for large- scale community living that normally furnishes protection - continuity - security - and a national identity for its members
Economics
Society
Constraint
Culture
23. The printing press - clocks - gunpowder - eyeglasses - and flush toilets.
Infrastructure
Many important innovations
Inventions
Innovation
24. To fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained; to obtain or refine (metal) in this way.
Smelting
Society
Use of fire
Standards
25. It became a problem
System
Engineering
Economics
solid wate disposal
26. The wealth - whether in money or property - owned or employed in business by an individual - firm - corporation - etc
Technology
Capital
Smelting
Engineering
27. The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
Infrastructure
Rule of law
Innovation
Computing
28. A new - useful process - machine - improvement - ect. - that did not exist previously and is recognized as the product as the product of some unique intuition of genius - as distinguished from ordinary mechanical skill or craftsmanship.
Standards
Science
Capital
Inventions
29. Something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; those morals - ethnics - habits - ect. - established by an authority - custom - or an individual as an acceptable.
Science
Many important innovations
Standards
Computing
30. Limitation or restriction.
Iterative
Mills and foundries
Constraint
Innovation
31. Financial Considerations; the science that deals with the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services - or the material welfare of human kind.
Science
Models
Economics
Culture
32. Increased as a power source during instrialization
Water
Mills and foundries
Culture
Capital
33. The exchange of one thing for another of more of less value - especially to affect a compromise
Iterative
Mills and foundries
Trade- off
Standards
34. The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social - ethnic - or age group
Smelting
Domestication of animals
Culture
Standards
35. Of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
Infrastructure
Many important innovations
Rule of law
Pragmatic
36. Major technological developments
solid wate disposal
Computing
one of the earliest technologies
Smelting and metal work
37. Repeating - cyclical
Water
Infrastructure
Iterative
Alloy