Engineering Terms 101
A device, contrivance, or process originated after study and experiment.
What is an Invention?
A new method, product, or idea.
What is Innovation?
A person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works.
What is an Engineer?
Identifying the problem is the _____ step of the engineering design process.
What is the first?
The quality of being near or true to the accepted value.
What is Accuracy?
The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
What is Technology?
The branch of engineering concerned with the design and application of circuitry and equipment for power generation and distribution, machine control, and communications.
What is Electrical Engineering?
Group discussion to produce ideas or solve problems.
What is Brainstorming?
An element, feature, or factor that is liable to vary or change., especially in the context of an experiment.
What is a Variable?
The natural science that studies matter, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
What is Physics?
Someone who designs and constructs buildings, roads and bridges.
What is a Civil Engineer?
The process of building a model of a system.
What is Prototyping?
An apparatus using or applying mechanical power and having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task.
What is a Machine?
The pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence.
What is Science?
Someone that solves problems involving tools, engines and machines
What is a Mechanical Engineer?
Trials and measures to check the quality, performance, or reliability of (something), especially before putting it into widespread use or practice.
What is Testing?
A limitation or restriction that must be considered during the design process.
What is a Constraint?
A STEM course required in engineering school.
What is (physics, chemistry, calculus, linear algebra, etc...)
The branch of engineering concerned with circuits, software design, and operating system development.
What is Computer Engineering?
The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions that must be completed before designs are implemented.
What is Research?