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