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