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