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tech unit 2 vocab
vocab for tech class
Question | Answer |
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1. Data | Facts and statistics used for reference or analysis. |
2. Designer | A person who designs any of the variety of things. This usually implies the task of creating drawings or in some ways uses visual cues to organize his or her work. |
3. Engineer | a person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. |
4. 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. |
5. Evolution | A gradual development |
6. Mock-up | A part of design brief that challenges the designer, describes what a design should do without describing how to solve the problem, and identifies the degree to which the solution must be executed. |
7. Negotiation | Mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement. |
Raw material | Any natural resource that is used to make finished products. |
9. Standard | Special importance, value, or prominence given to something. |
10. OSHA | A government organization whose mission is to assure the safety and health of America’s workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in workplace |
12. Detail drawing | A dimensioned, working drawing of a single part, also referred to as part drawing |
13. Engineers’ notebook | Also referred to as an engineer’s logbook, a design notebook, or designer’s notebook 1. A record of design ideas generated in the course of an engineer’s employment that others may not claim as their own. It is an archival record of new ideas and engineer |
15. Manufacture | to make something, especially on a large scale using machinery |
16. Mode | the value that occurs most frequently in a given set of data. |
17. Nominal size | the designation of the size established for a commercial product. |
18. Profile | An outline of something as seen from one side. |
19. Repeatability | The ability to replicate or duplicate a result. |
20. Product lifecycle | stages a product goes through from concept and use to eventual withdrawal from the market place. |
22. Ecosystem | a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. |
24. Ethics | The moral principles governing or influencing conduct. |
25. Marketing | The promotion and selling of products or services. |
26. Model | A visual. Mathematical, or three-dimensional 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 obje |
28. Normal distribution | A function that represents the distribution of variables as a symmetrical bell shaped graph. |
29. Research | The systematic study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. |
30. Statistics | Collection of methods for planning experiments, obtaining data, organizing, summarizing, presenting, analyzing, interpreting, and drawing conclusions based on data. |
31. Design statement | A part of design that clearly and concisely identifies a client’s or target consumer’s problem, need, or want. |
33. EPA | is the acronym for the environmental protection agency. |
34. Evaluate | To form and idea of the amount or value of; assess. |
36. Market research | The activity of gathering information about consumers’ needs and preferences. |
37. Non-renewable resource | A resource or raw material that cannot be grown or replaced. |
39. Residue | A small amount of something that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used. |
40. Renewable Resource | A resource or raw material that can be grown and replaced. |
NSPE | National Society of Professional Engineers |
NIEE | National Institute for Engineering Ethics |
Ethics | Standards, rules or guidelines for morally or socially approved conduct such as being honest or trustworthy or acting in the best interest of a society. |
Obligations | Requirements arising from a person’s situation or circumstances (e.g., relationships, knowledge, position) that specify what must or must not be done for moral, legal, religious, or institutional reasons. |
Software Piracy | The illegal copying, distribution or use of software. |
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 |
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 |
Engineers should act ethically because: | That is the way responsible engineers behave |
The first and foremost obligation of registered professional engineers is to: | The public welfare |
Registered professional engineers should undertake services for clients only when: | They are fully technically competent to carry out the services |