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Intro EGR Quiz 1
Intro Engineering Quiz 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| work in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, design and construction, pulp, paper, petrochemicals, food processing, polymers, biotechnology and environmental health and safety industries American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) | Chemical Engineering |
| meets the challenges of pollution, traffic congestion, drinking water and energy needs, urban redevelopment and community planning | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| analyze, design and evaluate computer systems, both hardware and software Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Computer Engineering |
| research, design, develop, test and oversee development of electronic systems and the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment and devices Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | Electrical Engineering |
| use principles of energy, materials and mechanics to design and manufacture machines and devices of all types American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) | Mechanical Engineering |
| problem that may have more than one solution | open-ended problem |
| approximation of a real system | model |
| a network sketch using a type of diagram | graph |
| the number of transistors that could be integrated onto a single working chip would double every two years | Moore's Law |
| a set or assemblage of things connected, associated, or interdependent, so as to form a complex unity | system |
| a ring around a system | boundary |
| region outside the system boundary | environment |
| components inside the system boundary | subsystem |
| link(s) across a system boundary that interact with the environment | interface |
| garbage in, garbage out | GIGO |
| a precise sequence of steps for solving a complex set of equations that may be carried out either by hand or implemented in a computer program | numerical method |
| knowledge in long-term memory is organized as a collection of concepts linked through relationships | schema |
| very small chunks of knowledge that relate one concept to another through a single relationship | facts |
| a network diagram or graph, where the nodes correspond to concepts and the edges (links) correspond to relationships between concepts | concept map |
| Computer Aided Design | CAD |
| a hard limit on a value, typically expressed as a mathematical inequality or equality | constraint |
| a goal of minimizing or maximizing a value | objective |
| mean time between failure | MTBF |
| a design technique that facilitates information organization or aids in decomposing problems from high level concepts to lower level concepts | hierarchical organization |
| environment in which the product will be used | operating environment |
| environment in which the product will be designed | engineering environment |
| To consumers, goals that state how a product or artifact can expect to perform in the customer environment | specifications |
| To producers, goals that state how a product must be designed to work in the customer environment | requirements |
| one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods | entrepreneur |
| an idea that solves a “problem” that a customer will pay for | business opportunity |
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