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Concepts Of Engineering And Technology

Subject : engineering
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1. It became a problem






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






3. Repeating - cyclical






4. Major technological developments






5. Arguably the most important engineering achievement.






6. 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






7. The iron age






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






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






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






19. Important technology






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






21. 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.






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






23. An object produced or shaped by human craft.






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






25. Increased as a power source during instrialization






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






27. Flourished during the industrial revolution






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






29. 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.






30. A system of moral principals






31. The domestication of plants and animals.






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






33. Became a widespread way of developing resources






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






35. 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






36. Limitation or restriction.






37. 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.