Vocabulary
a profession that draws upon knowledge of mathematics and science to create ways to economically use available materials and the forces of nature to benefit the human race through the process of design
What is Engineering?
How long did it take the Roman Colosseum to drain?
What is an hour?
Engineers are _________?
What are creators?
a period, which began in Britain during the late 1700s and lasted until the mid-1900s, in which human and animal muscle power was replaced by machines
the area of artificial intelligence that designs and builds robots
What is robotics?
specifications
What is criteria?
How many channels did the ancient Roman Colosseum use to bring in water?
What is 40?
Engineering is really about __________________?
What is solving problems?
a system in which people made goods using machines rather than by hand
What is the factory system?
the creation of materials, devices, and systems using individual atoms and molecules
What is nanotechnology?
limitations, boundaries on a solution; the limits imposed on a design solution
What are constraints?
How many drains did the Roman Colosseum have?
What is 4?
What is the first "modern field of engineering to emerge?
What is civil engineering?
a period that continues today in which the changes caused by machinery and factory production gradually gave way to a new type of technology: information
What is the information age?
any use of machines to imitate human intelligence
What is artificial intelligence?
a process that takes an idea and implements it physically
What is design?
What did ancient people use on their canoes and sailboats to stabilize them?
What are outriggers?
Science is "a ________ that engineers use - along with ________."
What are tool and mathematics?
having to do with right and wrong as defined by an external source
a channel built to carry water
What are aqueducts?
an iterative series of steps engineers use to arrive at the solution to a problem
What is the design process?
What is a double hulled canoe called?
What is a catamaran?
What did Thomas Savery and Thomas Newcomen invent?
What is the steam engine?
a difficult decision about whether something is right or wrong
What is an ethical dilemma?
using artificial intelligence to create a computer-generated environment
What is virtual reality?