Types of Engineering
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Types of Technology
Vocabulary
S.T.E.M.
100
The raising of crops and animals for food, feed, fiber, fuel, or other useful products.
What is agriculture?
100
Their job is to oversee the construction of the buildings and infrastructure that make up our world: highways, skyscrapers, railways, bridges, and water reservoirs, as well as some of the most spectacular and high-profile of all engineering feats—think of the world’s tallest building, the towering Burj Khalifa in Dubai, or the Chunnel, the thirty-one-mile-long tunnel beneath the English Channel.
What is civil engineering.
100
The process of gathering and storing data to be used in various forms.
What is information technology.
100
A human made object
What is an artifact?
100
The science of patterns and order and the study of measurement, properties, and the relationships of quantities using numbers and symbols.
What is math?
200
They design, analyze, model, simulate, and test aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, missiles, and rockets
What is aerospace engineering?
200
They make a real difference in the survival of our planet by finding ways of cleaning up our oceans, rivers, and drinking water, developing air pollution equipment, designing more effective recycling systems, or discovering safe ways to dispose of toxic waste.
What is an environmental engineer.
200
What is the giving and receiving of information?
What is communication technology.
200
The ability to do work.
What is energy.
200
Using technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
What is engineering?
300
They study living systems and apply that knowledge to solve various problems. they study the safety of food supplies, keep desirable organisms alive in fermentation processes, and design biologically based sensors
What is bioengineering or biochemical?
300
They draw on the science of geology to study the earth, using engineering principles to seek and develop deposits of natural resources and design foundations for large buildings, bridges, and other structures. Related engineering fields include civil, mineral, mining, and petroleum.
What is geological or geophysical engineering?
300
manipulating materials on an atomic or molecular level.
What is nanotechnology?
300
An improvement on an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something.
What is an innovation?
300
The study of our natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations.
What is science?
400
They study biology and medicine to develop technologies related to health care. they develop medical diagnostic machines, medical instruments, artificial organs, joint replacement parts, and prosthetic devices.
What is biomedical engineering?
400
They work with all aspects of manufacturing from production control to materials handling to automation. the assembly line is the domain of the manufacturing engineer.
What is an industrial or manufacturing engineer?
400
Changes natural or synthetic materials into usable products.
What is manufacturing technology?
400
A new product, system, or something that has never been created before.
What is an invention?
400
The way people use resources to meet their wants and needs.
What is technology?
500
They discover and manufacture better plastics, paints, fuels, fibers, medicines, fertilizers, semiconductors, paper, and all other kinds of chemicals
What is chemical engineering?
500
These engineers' jobs include interaction of radiation with matter, radiation measurements, radioisotope production and use, reactor engineering, and fusion reactors and materials
What is a nuclear engineer?
500
Creates tools to minimize the effect of technology on the development of living things.
What is environmental technology.
500
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 and output
What is process?
500
One studies the human/animal world, the other studies the human-made world.
What is the difference between science and technology?
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