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