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Climate Eng. Intern
Earth's Changing Climate Engineering Internship
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Criteria | Standards by which something may be judged |
| Constraint | A limit or restriction |
| Civil Engineer | Apply concepts from physics to build structures like roads, bridges, and dams |
| Albedo | A measure of how much sunlight is reflected away from a surface |
| Deliverable | A thing to be delivered, usually in a development or design process |
| Convert | To change from one type to another |
| Variable | Something that can be changed and may be measured |
| Iterative Testing | Repeating a process in a way that considers the results of a previous design |
| Optimize | To improve a design as much as possible, considering all of the criteria and the tradeoffs |
| Trade-off | When you have to give up one thing in return for another |