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