• management should take a more active roll in the factory
• there was a drastic cut in the cost of manufactured goods (reduction of 1/10 to 1/20)
• efficiency movement

TQM

Total Quality Management

• a process for managing quality
• it must be a continuous way of life
• a philosophy of perpetual improvement in everything that we do
• everyone and all actvities within the company must meet the customer requirements

PE

Professional Engineers

you start with an idea, encounter obstacles and seek to overcome them until you arrive at the desired product

________ ________ _________ is truly at the limits of engineering

Bloom's Classification by Level of Difficulty:

Level 1

Knowledge: the remembering of previously learned material

Bloom's Classification by Level of Difficulty:

Level 2

Bloom's Classification by Level of Difficulty:

Level 3

Bloom's Classification by Level of Difficulty:

Level 4

Bloom's Classification by Level of Difficulty:

Level 5

• always clean and organized
• numerics will always be correct (assuming you enterd correct equations)
• automated graphing and presentation tools
• superior error and plausability checking

often results from poor quality measurements or interference

[think AM radio]

display as many digits that make the result just as inaccurate

[the least amount of numbers]

• the closeness of an observation to it's true value
• inverse of error

• the ability to reproduce a reading with a given accuracy
• the similarity between repeat readings

Italy

During which century did modern engineering originate?

1. You can learn about the mistakes other people have already made in the field of research.
2. You can learn which solutions worked and which solutions didn't work and you can proceed from there.

How did the Wright Brothers approach the problem of building a lightweight engine?

1. Engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public.
2. Engineers shall avoid deceptive acts.