Test 1 Vocab Review

2. Optimizes complex processes, systems, and organizations to improve efficiency and productivity.
3. Focuses on designing, analyzing, and manufacturing mechanical systems, machines, and energy systems.
10. Addresses environmental issues, including pollution control, water treatment, and sustainable development.
11. A person who designs any of a variety of things. This usually implies the task of creating drawings or in some ways uses visual cues to organize his or her work.
14. A sub-discipline of Civil Engineering focused on building stability and integrity.
15. A tool used to compare conceptual design solutions against one another, using specific criteria.
16. A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
17. Designs aircraft (aeronautical) and spacecraft (astronautics).

1. Transforms raw materials into products (fuels, plastics, medicines) using chemical, physical, and biological processes.
3. Combines mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering for automated systems (e.g., robotics).
4. Integrates hardware and software, focusing on computers, systems, applications, and networks.
5. Studies and develops materials like metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites.
6. Deals with electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism, covering power systems, circuits, and devices.
7. A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve a problem or satisfy human needs and wants and to winnow (narrow) down the possible solutions to one final choice.
8. A means of judging. A standard, rule, or test by which something can be judged.
9. Merges biology and engineering to create medical devices, diagnostics, and treatments.
12. Designs and builds public infrastructure like roads, bridges, dams, and buildings.
13. Focuses on oil and gas extraction, refining, and processing.