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Concepts Of Engineering And Technology

Subject : engineering
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1. The printing press - clocks - gunpowder - eyeglasses - and flush toilets.






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






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






4. Flourished during the industrial revolution






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






6. A system of moral principals






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. An object produced or shaped by human craft.






11. 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.






12. Major technological developments






13. Repeating - cyclical






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






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






16. Limitation or restriction.






17. The iron age






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






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






20. Important technology






21. Arguably the most important engineering achievement.






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






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. It became a problem






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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. The domestication of plants and animals.






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






34. Increased as a power source during instrialization






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






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






37. Became a widespread way of developing resources