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