Introduction to Engineering Vocabulary Quiz

A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal.

• Artifact

• Communication

• Math

• System

The transmission of information though a common system of symbols, signs, behavior, speech, writing, or signals.

• Communication

• Science

• Biotechnology

• Invention

The science of patterns and order and the study of measurement, properties, and the relationships of quantities: using numbers and symbols.

• Science

• Math

• Process

• System

Of, or relating to, or resulting from industry.

• Nanotechnology

• Industrial

• Engineering

• Technology

A new product, system or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation.

• Invention

• Innovation

• Industrial

• Agriculture

The study of our natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation and theoretical explanations.

• Construction

• Energy

• Manufacturing

• Science

The 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.

• Innovation

• Ergonomics

• Math

• Manufacturing

The process of making a raw material into a finished product; especially in large quantities.

• Agriculture

• Transportation

• Manufacturing

• Math

The way people use resources to meet their wants and needs.

• Technology

• Artifact

• Invention

• Math

The raising of crops and animals for food, feed, fiber, fuel, or other useful products.

• Energy

• Environment

• Process

• Agriculture