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Engineering and Technology: Flashcards for Units 1-4
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- 1a broad engineering field that includes design, planning, construction, and management of infrastructuresConstruction Engineering
- 2a concrete, tangible representation of an object that maintains correct spatial relationsscale model
- 3a continuous extent, series, or wholecontinuum
- 4a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formed, and that hypothesis is empirically testedscientific method
- 5a problem-solving or computational method of repetition in which a succession of approximations, each building on the one preceding, is used to achieve a desired degree of accuracyiteration
- 6a series of steps that engineers use in creating functional products and processes to find a solution to a problemengineering design process
- 7a set of cognitive tools that increases in sophistication and power over timesystems thinking
- 8a set of connected parts that together form a cohesive wholephysical system
- 9a system disconnected from everything elsetechnological systems
- 10a system where a quantity (or series of quantities) can enter or leave the system to a significant degreeopen system
- 11a system where a quantity (or series of quantities) cannot enter or leave the systemclosed system
- 12a technology that uses cellular and biomolecular processes to create solutions and new ideasbiotechnology
- 13people working together to solve problemsteamwork
- 14person who actually uses the particular productend user
- 15science that involves the discovery and design of new materials, with an emphasis on solidsmaterials science
- 16small, sophisticated devices implanted in humans to fight disease, enhance the senses, and provide communicationTranshumanism
- 17something new or different introducedinnovation
- 18the ability to transmit heat, sound, or electricityconductivity
- 19the act of fusing, melting, or refining metalsmelting
- 20the application of scientific knowledge to solve problems in the real worldengineering
- 21the branch of engineering concerned with earth materialsGeotechnical Engineering
- 22the branch of engineering that specifically focuses on how water is distributed, treated, and used with regards to public drinking water, reservoir flows into residential areas, and water treatmentWater Resources Engineering
- 23the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environmenttechnology
- 24the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideasideation
- 25the energy to move a vehicle through the airpropulsion
- 26the engineering branch that deals with city issues, such as streets, sidewalks, water supply networks, sewers, street lighting, and anything that functions in your houseUrban Engineering
- 27the engineering branch that deals with managing coastal areas and protection against floods and erosionCoastal Engineering
- 28the engineering field that deals with analyzing and designing structures that resist or support loadsStructural Engineering
- 29the engineering field that designs, builds, supervises, operates, and maintains construction projects and systems in the public and private sectorsCivil Engineering
- 30the engineering field that focuses on waste management and disposal, sustainability, and the quality of air and water, among other public health issuesEnvironmental Engineering
- 31the extent to which solid materials can be deformed without fractureductility
- 32the important characteristics your solution must meet to succeeddesign requirements
- 33the job or process of determining the surface of the earth or landscape through measuring the three-dimensional topographical points and the angles between themsurveying
- 34the original or preliminary model on which something is based or formedprototype
- 35the process of analyzing a system to see how it functions in order to design a different device that can provide the same functionreverse engineering
- 36the ratio of an object's mass to its volumedensity
- 37the study of how fluid flows around obstacles, specifically how air moves over objectsfluid mechanics
- 38the study of mechanics used in spaceastrodynamics
- 39when you finally choose your focus of any given systemdefining the system
- 40where all pertinent work information is recorded in a permanent record with great careengineering notebook
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