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