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Concepts Of Engineering And Technology

Subject : engineering
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1. 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.






2. The printing press - clocks - gunpowder - eyeglasses - and flush toilets.






3. 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.






4. Repeating - cyclical






5. Arguably the most important engineering achievement.






6. Flourished during the industrial revolution






7. Important technology






8. A person who organizes and manages any enterprise - especially a business - usually with considerable initiative and risk






9. Of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.






10. Financial Considerations; the science that deals with the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services - or the material welfare of human kind.






11. The practical application of science to commerce or industry. Generally takes the form of an artifact.






12. A standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principal for evaluating or testing something






13. Limitation or restriction.






14. An object produced or shaped by human craft.






15. 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.






16. The exchange of one thing for another of more of less value - especially to affect a compromise






17. An assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole






18. Became a widespread way of developing resources






19. Led to an increase in the ownership of private property.






20. The wealth - whether in money or property - owned or employed in business by an individual - firm - corporation - etc






21. Allowed the substitution of animal power for human power.






22. To fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained; to obtain or refine (metal) in this way.






23. The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social - ethnic - or age group






24. 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






25. A system of moral principals






26. The iron age






27. Increased as a power source during instrialization






28. It became a problem






29. A new way of doing something; an improvement on an existing form - composition or processes.






30. The domestication of plants and animals.






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






32. 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






33. The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. Major technological developments






37. The fundamental facilities and systems serving a country - city - or area - as transportation and communication systems - power plants - and schools.