Engineering Study Guide

Lab Colors PPT Assignment - This assignment showed us what lab colors mean in a laboratory and how we can apply our lives to them for safety.

 Reverse Engineering -The process of basically learning from mistakes, It can also be extracting knowledge or design info from anything man-made or already produced.

 The TSA website displayed the wonders of the association and how it worked. Students can apply with a school and experience many new things about Technology and Engineering.

 What is a CTSO- CTSO is an acronym for Career and Technical Student Organization. These are organizations specifically for students enrolled in CTE programs.

 Color for TSA- The colors of TSA shall be scarlet (red), white, and blue (navy). Scarlet (red) represents the strength and determination of the technology education students and teachers to obtain their goal. White represents high standards, morals, and religious beliefs. Blue (navy) represents the sincerity of the technology education students and teachers in obtaining a greater knowledge of our technological world.

 Architectural scale measurements-is a specialized ruler designed to facilitate the drafting and measuring of architectural drawings, such as floor plans and orthographic projections.

 Metric system conversions are conversions that deal with temperature, weight, length, area, volume, speed, and time.

 Engineering Lettered is lettering with the goals of legibility and uniformity. Technical lettering and engineering lettering have some things in common.

Rapid Prototyping is a group of techniques used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a physical part or assembly using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD) data.

 Scale Factor is a number which scales or multiplies some quantity.

Drafting is preparing a preliminary version of the project or task at hand.

 Parametric/Surface modeling
-A parametric model is a family of distributions that can be described using a finite number of parameters. The parameters are usually collected together to form a single k-dimensional parameter.

Multi-view drawing is a system that allows you to make a two-dimensional of a three-dimensional object.


 Maker Movement is a contemporary culture representing a technology-based extension of DIY culture.

A wireframe model is an edge or skeletal representation of a real-world 3D object using lines and curves. Surface modeling is widely used in CAD (computer-aided design) for illustrations and architectural renderings. Solid modeling is a consistent set of principles for mathematical and computer modeling of three-dimensional solids.

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Technology: the study of the designed world. Used to solve practical problems and extend human capabilities. Developments in technology are evolutionary, and are often the result of a series of refinements to an idea or basic invention.



Impacts of Technology: are divided into four categories: social (the impact on people), political (the impact on policy and laws), cultural (the impact on human achievement), and economic (the impact on the economy).



Paleolithic Age: the Old Stone Age, occurred between 500,000 BC and 10,000 BC and is marked by improvements to diet and security allowing the population to grow

Mesolithic Age: the Middle Stone Age, occurred between 10,000 BC and 4,000 BC and is marked by the domestication of animals and agriculture.

Neolithic Age: the New Stone Age, occurred between 4,000 BC and 2,300 BC and is marked by specialization, division of labor, and the use of math and documentation of concepts.

Bronze Age: the architectural period that includes combining copper and tin to produce bronze; occurred between 2,300 BC and 700 BC. 

Iron Age: the architectural period marked by the use of iron and steel; occurred between 700 BC and 450 AD.

Middle Ages: the architectural period after the Roman Empire; divided into Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, and Late Middle Ages; occurred between 450 AD and 1,400 AD and marked by the development of tools of war.

Renaissance: the architectural period marked by the revival of classical influence and the sharing of ideas; occurred between 1,400 AD and 1,750 AD.

Industrial Age: the architectural period marked by the first use of complex machinery, factories and urbanization, occurring between 1,750 AD and 1,950 AD.

Information Age: the architectural period marked by information sharing, gathering, manipulation, and retrieval; occurred between 1,950 AD and present.