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