Technology Vocab Unit 1
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Created by:
CarlosL on September 14, 2011
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concepts-of-engineering-and-technology
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Vocab words for test on 9/15/11
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Science | Knowledge of priciples and causes; especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and the forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissue, etc. |
| Technology | The practical application of science to commerce or industry. Generally takes the form of an artifact. |
| Engineering | Originally, the art of managing engines, in its modern extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made usefull to man in structures and machines; ABET "The profession of which knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences, gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgement to develop ways to use, economically, the materials and forces, benefit to makind." |
| Artifact | Any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use. An object produced or shaped by mankind. |
| Iterative | Repeating, cyclical. |
| Innovation | A new way of doing something; an improvement on an existing form, composition, or processes. |
| Constraint | Limitations or restrictions. |
| Trade-Off | The exchange of one thing for another of more or less equal value, especially to effect a compromise. |
| Ergonomics | Human factors engineering, an applied science that coordinates the design of devices, systems, and physical working conditions with the capacities and requirements of the worker. |
| Standards | Something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; those morals, ethics, habits, etc., established by an authority, custom, or an individual as acceptable. |
| Inventions | A new, useful process, machine, improvement, etc., that did not exist previously and that is recognized as the product of some unique intuition or genius, as distinguished from ordinary mechanical skill or craftmanship. |
| Entreprenuer | A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a buisness, usually with considerable initiative and risk. |
| Economics | Financial considerations; the science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of humankind. |
| Models | A representation, generally in miniature, to show the construction or appearence of something, a simplified representation of a system or phenomenom, as in the sciences or economics, with any hypotheses required to describe the system or explain the phenomenom, often mathmatically. |
| Criteria | A standard of judgement or criticism; a rule of principle for evauluating or testing something. |
| Ethics | A system of moral priciples. |
| System | An assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole. |
| Infrastructure | The fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area as transportation and communication systems, schools, and power plants. |
| Capital | The wealth, whether in money or property, owned or employed in business by an individual, firm, corporation, etc. |
| Society | A highly structured system of human organization for large scale community living that normally furnishes protection, contuity, security, and a national identity of its members. |
| Culture | The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethic, or age group. |
| Smelting | To fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained; to obtain or refine (metal) in this way. |
| Alloy | A substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimatly mixed, as by fusion or electroposition. |
| Pragmatic | Of or pertaining to a practical of view or practical considerations. |
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