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Concepts Of Engineering And Technology
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1. Of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
Pragmatic
Inventions
Infrastructure
Computing
2. 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.
Ergonomics
Artifact
Economics
Alloy
3. A standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principal for evaluating or testing something
Criteria
Iterative
Models
Constraint
4. Allowed the substitution of animal power for human power.
Society
Domestication of animals
Constraint
one of the earliest technologies
5. 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
Iterative
Many important innovations
Alloy
6. An object produced or shaped by human craft.
Entrepreneur
Computing
Artifact
Society
7. The wealth - whether in money or property - owned or employed in business by an individual - firm - corporation - etc
Infrastructure
Capital
Smelting and metal work
Ergonomics
8. The printing press - clocks - gunpowder - eyeglasses - and flush toilets.
Many important innovations
Domestication of animals
Iterative
Computing
9. Became a widespread way of developing resources
Many important innovations
Colonization
Culture
Technology
10. The domestication of plants and animals.
Capital
Innovation
Smelting and metal work
one of the earliest technologies
11. 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
Culture
Artifact
Society
Ergonomics
12. Flourished during the industrial revolution
Innovation
Rule of law
System
Mills and foundries
13. A person who organizes and manages any enterprise - especially a business - usually with considerable initiative and risk
solid wate disposal
Ergonomics
Models
Entrepreneur
14. Led to an increase in the ownership of private property.
Smelting and metal work
Society
Rule of law
System
15. To fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained; to obtain or refine (metal) in this way.
Technology
Smelting
Innovation
The steam engine
16. Arguably the most important engineering achievement.
The steam engine
Domestication of animals
Innovation
Rule of law
17. 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
Standards
Alloy
Rule of law
18. 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.
Standards
Ethics
Use of fire
Technology
19. The exchange of one thing for another of more of less value - especially to affect a compromise
System
Technology
Trade- off
Artifact
20. A new way of doing something; an improvement on an existing form - composition or processes.
this led to the devlopement of steel as an alloy of iron and carbon
Society
Innovation
Technology
21. 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.
Use of fire
Inventions
this led to the devlopement of steel as an alloy of iron and carbon
System
22. 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.
Entrepreneur
Capital
Ergonomics
Innovation
23. Limitation or restriction.
System
Artifact
Constraint
Society
24. Repeating - cyclical
Ergonomics
Science
Colonization
Iterative
25. The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social - ethnic - or age group
Models
Ethics
Technology
Culture
26. Increased as a power source during instrialization
Water
Colonization
this led to the devlopement of steel as an alloy of iron and carbon
Innovation
27. It became a problem
Society
Capital
Culture
solid wate disposal
28. The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
System
one of the earliest technologies
Iterative
Computing
29. An assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole
System
Artifact
Use of fire
Many important innovations
30. Financial Considerations; the science that deals with the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services - or the material welfare of human kind.
Many important innovations
Alloy
Domestication of animals
Economics
31. 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.
Science
solid wate disposal
Constraint
Iterative
32. Major technological developments
Smelting and metal work
Technology
solid wate disposal
Standards
33. The fundamental facilities and systems serving a country - city - or area - as transportation and communication systems - power plants - and schools.
Computing
Colonization
Iterative
Infrastructure
34. Important technology
Constraint
Computing
Use of fire
Technology
35. The practical application of science to commerce or industry. Generally takes the form of an artifact.
Technology
Ergonomics
Trade- off
Models
36. A system of moral principals
Ethics
Standards
The steam engine
Colonization
37. The iron age
Economics
Mills and foundries
this led to the devlopement of steel as an alloy of iron and carbon
Constraint