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🫠Intro to Engineering
Key Terms

372 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Engineering exam

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3D modeling
3D Printing

A

ABET Accreditation
Abstraction techniques
Acceleration
Adams-Bashforth Method
Adaptive filters
Additive manufacturing
Aerodynamic optimization
Aerodynamics
Affine Transformation
Agile development
Air Pollution Control
Algorithm design patterns
Aluminum alloys
Amorphous structure
Anaerobic digestion
Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs)
Analytic Hierarchy Process
Annealing
Anonymous functions
ANSI Standards
Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs)
Array reshaping
Artificial intelligence
Artificial organs
ASCE Code of Ethics
Ashby Charts
ASME Y14.5
Assembly modeling
ASTM Standards
Astronautical engineering
Asymptotic Analysis
Automated manufacturing processes
Automotive engineering
Average-case analysis

B

Baseline dimensioning
Benefit-Cost Ratio
Best-case analysis
Bhopal Disaster
Big O Notation
Bilateral Tolerance
Binary cycle plants
Biochemical engineering
Biocompatible scaffolds
Biodegradable materials
Biomass energy
Biomedical implants
Biomedical instrumentation
Biosensors
Bisection Method
Boundary Value Analysis

C

CAE Tools
Capacity Planning
Carbon fiber
Carbon fiber reinforced polymers
CFD
Clearance fit
CNC Machining
Code optimization techniques
Combinational circuits
Composite materials
Composite tolerancing
Compressive stress
Computational fluid dynamics
Computational fluid dynamics (cfd)
Computational modeling
Concentrated Solar Power
Concept Generation
Conflict of Interest
Conjugate Gradient Method
Control Systems
Cooperative Education Programs
COP - Coefficient of Performance
Corrosion resistance