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