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Term | Definition |
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1.Data | Facts and statistics used for reference or analysis. |
2.Design Brief | A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria, and its constraints. The design brief is used to encourage thinking of all aspects of a problem before attempting a solution. |
3.Design process | A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve a problem or satisfy human needs and wants and to winnow (narrow) down the possible solutions to one final choice. |
4.Design statement | A part of design brief that challenges the designer, describes what a design solution should do without describing how to solve the problem, and identifies the degree to which the solution must be executed. |
5.Designer | A person who designs any of a variety of things. This usually implies the task of creating drawings or in some ways uses visual cues to organize his or her work. |
6.Detail Drawing | A dimensioned, working drawing of a single part. Also referred to as part drawing. |
7.Ecosystem | A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. |
8.Emphasis | Special importance, value, or prominence given to something. |
9.Engineer | A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. |
10.Engineer’s Notebook | Also referred to as an Engineer's logbook, a Design Notebook, or Designer's notebook1. A record of design ideas generated in the course of an engineer's employment that others may not claim as their own. New ideas and engineering research achievements. |
11.English System | Also referred to as the U.S. Customary system. The measuring system based on the foot, second, and pound as units of length, time, and weight or mass |
12.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | EPA is the acronym for the Environmental Protection Agency. |
13.Ergonomics | The study of workplace equipment design or how to arrange and design devices, machines, or workspace so that people and things interact safely and most efficiently. |
14.Ethical | Conforming to an established set of principles or accepted professional standards of contact. |
15.Ethics | The moral principles governing or influencing conduct. |
16.Evaluate | To form an idea of the amount or value of; assess. |
17.Evolution | A gradual development. |
18. Manufacture | To make something, especially on a large scale using machinery. |
19. Marketing | The promotion and selling of products or services. |
20. Manufacturing process | The transformation of raw material into finished goods through one or more of the following: Casting and molding, shaping and reshaping for forming, for material removal, or joining by transforming using heat or chemical reaction to bond materials. |
21. Mock-up | Also referred to as an Appearance Model. A model or replica of a machine or structure for instructional or experimental purposes. |
22. Mode | The value that occurs most frequently in a given data set. |
23. Model | A visual representation in detail of an object or design, often smaller than the original. A model is often used to test ideas, make changes to a design, and to learn more about what would happen to a similar, real object. |
24. Market Research | The activity of gathering information about consumers’ needs and preferences |
25. Negotiation | Mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement. |
26. Nominal Size | The designation of the size established for a commercial product. |
27. Process | Human activities used to create, design, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products or systems; a systematic sequence of actions that combines resources to produce an output. |
28. Non-Renewable Resource | A resource or raw material that cannot be grown or replaced once used. |
29. Product | A tangible artifact produced by means of either human or mechanical work, or by biological or chemical process. |
30. Profile | An outline of something as seen from one side. |
31. Normal Distribution | A function that represents the distribution of variables as a symmetrical bell-shaped graph. |
32. Problem Statement | A part of design brief that clearly and concisely identifies a client’s or target consumer’s problem, need, or want. |
35. Research | The systematic study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions |
36. Residue | A small amount of something that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used. |
37. Standard | Something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison. |
38. Product lifecycle | Stages a product goes through from concept and use to eventual withdrawal from the market place. |
39. Statistics | Collection of methods for planning experiments, obtaining data, organizing, summarizing, presenting, analyzing, interpreting, and drawing conclusions based on data. |
40. Renewable Resource | A resource or raw material that can be grown and replaced. |
41. Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) | A government organization whose mission is to assure the safety and health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards |
42. National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) | Only engineering society which represents individual engineering professionals and licensed engineers. Founded in 1934. Has 60,000 members. |
43.National Institue for Engineering Ethics | Is an official component of the Murdough center for engineering Professionalism in the College of Engineering at Texas Tech university |
44.Obligations | Requirements arising from a person's situation or circumstances that specify what must or must not be done for moral, legal, religious, or institutional reasons. |
45.Software Piracy | The illegal copying, distribution or use of software. |
46.Whistle Blowing | When a person raises a concern about wrongdoing occurring in an organization or body of people |
A person's behavior is always ethical when he or she: Does what is best for everyone (c) | Engineers should follow their professional ethics code because: It provides a clear definition of what the public has a right to expect from responsible engineers. (b) |
Engineers should act ethically because: That is the way responsible engineers behave (d) | The first and foremost obligation of registered professional engineers is to: the public welfare. (a) |
Registered professional engineers should undertake services for clients only when: They are fully technically competent to carry out the services. (c) | |
33. Raw Material | Any natural resource that is used to make finished products. |
34.Repeatability | The ability to replicate or duplicate a result. |