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IntroToEngineering
Engineering
Term | Definition |
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Process | Human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products or systems; a sequence of actions that combines resources to produce an output. |
Nanotechnology | The science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from single atoms and molecules. |
Biotechnology | All the technology connected with plant and animal life. |
Engineering | Using technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. |
Construction | The act or process of building, erecting, or creating buildings, roads, or other structures. |
Energy | The ability to do work. One of the basic resources used by a technological system. |
Math | The science of patterns and order and the study of measurement, properties, and the relationships of quantities using numbers and symbols. |
Artifact | A human-made object. |
Industrial | Of, relating to, or resulting from any general business, manufacturing or technical activity. |
Communication | The transmission of information through a common system of symbols, signs, behavior, speech, writing, or signals. |
Invention | A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation. |
Manufacturing | The process of making a raw material into a finished product; especially in large quantities. |
Science | The study of our natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations. |
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. |
Transportation | The process by which passengers or goods are moved or delivered from one place to another. |
Technology | The way people use resources to meet their wants and needs. |
Environment | The surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives. |
System | A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal. |
Innovation | An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something. |
Agriculture | The raising of crops and animals for food, feed, fiber, fuel, or other useful products. |