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Science |
The knowledge obtained by observing natural events and conditions in order to discover facts and formulate laws or principles that can be verified or tested. |
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Scientific Methods |
A series of steps followed to solve problems, including collecting data, formulations a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions |
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Observation |
the process of obtaining information by using the senses. |
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Model |
model or prototype a pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show the stucture or workings. |
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Technology |
the products and processes that are designed. |
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Engineering |
the process of creating technology. ` |
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Engineering design process |
the process engineers use to develop a new technology |
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Prototype |
a test model of a product |
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Cost-Benefit analysis |
the process of determining whether the cost of doing something is worth the benefit provided |
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Bioengineering |
the application of engineering to living things, such as humans and plants |
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Assistive Bioengineering |
engineering that results in a product or process that helps living organisms but does not change them permanently |
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Hypothesis |
an explanation that is based on prior scientific research or observations and that can be tested |
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Data |
any pieces of information acquired through observation or experimentation |
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theory |
an explanation for some phenomenon that is based on observation |
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law |
a summary of many experimental results and observations. |
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adaptive bioengineering |
engineering that results in a product or process that changes living organisms |
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meter |
the basic unit of length in the SI |
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area |
a measure of the size of a surface or a region |
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volume |
the amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container, especially when great |
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density |
a measure of the amount of information on a storage medium (tape or disk). For magnetic tape it is the amount of information recorded per unit length of tape (bits per inch or millimeter); for a disk, a fixed number of bits per sector, sectors per track, and tracks per disk.
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temperature |
the degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object, especially as expressed according to a comparative scale and shown by a thermometer or perceived by touch.
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