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Ethics Vocab
Bergstom
Term | Definition |
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Data | Facts and Statistics used for refrence or analysis |
Design Brief | A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria,and its criter constraints. The design brief is used to encourage thinking of all aspects of a problem before attemting a solution |
Design Statement | A part of design brief that challenges the designer, describes what a design solution should do without decribing how to solve the problem or satisfy human need and wnts and to winno down the possible solutions to one final choice |
Design Statement | A part of design brief that challenges the designer, describes wha a design solution should do without describing how to solve the problem, and identifies the degree to which the solution must be executed |
Designer | a person who desins any variety of things. this usuall implies the task of creating drawings or in some ways visual cues to organize his or her work |
Detail Drawing | A dimensioned, working drawing of a single part, also referred to as part drawing |
Ecosystem | A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical enviroment |
Engineer | A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems |
Engineer's Notebook | 1. A record of design ideas generated in the course of an engineer's employment that may not claim as their own. It is an archival record of new ideas and engineerig research achievments |
English System | Also referred to as the U.S. Customary system, The measuring system based on the foot, second, and pund as units of length,time, and weight or mass |
Enviromental Protection Agency (EPA) | EPA is the acronym for the Enviromental Protection Agency |
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 efficientls |
Ethical | Conforming to an established set of principles or accepted professional standards of contact |
Ethics | The Moral principles governing or influencing conduct |
Evaluate | To form an idea of the amount or value of; assess |
Evolution | A gradual development |
Manufacture | To make something, especially on a large scale using machinerey |
Manufacturing Process | The transformation of raw material into finished goods through one or more of the following: Casting and molding, shaping and reshaping, shearing, pulverizing, machinery, for material removal, or joining by transforming using heat or chemical reaction.... |
Marketing | The promotion and selling of products or seervices |
Market Research | The activity of gathering information about consumers' needs and preferences |
Mock-up | It is a model or replica of a machine or structure for instructional or experimental purposes |
Mode | The value that occurs most freuently in a given data set |
Model | A visual, Mathematical, or three dimensional representation in detail of an object or design, often smaller than the original. |
Negotiation | Mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement |
Nominal Size | The designation of the size established for a commercial product |
Non- renewable resource | A recource or raw material that cannot be grown or replaced once used |
Normal Distribution | A function that represents the distribution of variables as a symmetrical bell-shaped graph |
Occupation Safety and Health Administation (OSHA) | A government organization whose mission is to assure the safety and health of America's workers |
Problem Statement | A part of design brief that clearly annd concisely identifies a client's or target consumer's problem, need, or want |
Process | Human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products or systems; a systematic sequence of actions that combines resources to produce an output |
Product Lifecycle | Stages a product goes through from concept and use to eventual withdrawal from the market place |
Profile | An outline of something as seen from one side |
Raw Material | Any natural resource that is used to make finished products |
Renewable Resource | A resource or raw material that can be grown and replaced |
Repeatability | The ability to replicate or duplicate a result |
Research | The systematic study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions |
Residue | A small amount of somthing that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used |
Standard | Somthing consiered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison |
Statistics | Collection of methods for planning experiments, obtaining data, organizing, summarizing, presenting, analyzing, interpreting, and drawing conclusions based on data |
Obligations | Requirements arising from a person's situation or circumstances |
Software Piracy | The illeagal copying, distrubution or use of software |
Whistle Blowing | When a person raises a concern about wrongdoing occuring in an orginization or body of people |
NSPE | Stands for National Society of Professional Engineers |
NIEE | Stands for National Institute for Engineering Ethics |