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