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What Is Engineering - Key Terms

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AgricultureThe raising of crops and animals for food, feed, fiber, fuel, or other useful products.
ArtifactA human-made object.
ConstructionThe act or process of building, erecting, or constructing buildings, roads, or other structures.
CommunicationThe transmission of information through a common system of symbols, signs, behavior, speech, writing, or signals.
ErgonomicsThe 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.
IndustrialOf, relating to, or resulting from industry.
InnovationAn improvement of an existing technological product, system, method of doing something.
InventionA new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation.
EnvironmentThe surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives.
MathThe science of patterns and order and the study of measurement, properties, and the relationships of quantities using numbers and symbols.
NanotechnologyThe science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from single atoms and molecules.
ManufacturingThe process of making a raw material into a finished product; especially in large quantities.
TransportationThe process by which passengers or goods are moved or delivered from one place to another.
SystemA group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal.
ScienceThe study of our natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations.
TechnologyThe way people use resources to meet their wants and needs.
ProcessHuman 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.
EngineeringUsing technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
BiotechnologyAll the technology connected with plant and animal life.
EnergyThe ability to do work. Energy is one of the basic resources used by a technological system.


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