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