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