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