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