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