Words Definition

Engineering A discipline or profession of applying technical and scientific knowledge and utilizing
natural laws and physical resources in order to design an object that meed specified
criteria.

Ethics The study of moral rules or principles of behaviour for deciding what is right and
wrong.

Engineering The study of moral issues and decisions confronting individuals and organizations
Ethics involved in engineering.

Sustainability A requirement of our generation to manage the resource base such that the average
quality of life that we ensure ourselves can potentially be shared by all future
generations.

Brundtland Sustainable development is the kind of development that meets the need of the
Commission present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs.

Project Organizing project in logical order and identifying and defining work activities in a
planning manner that help achieve project objectives.

Gantt chart Timeline chart that illustrates the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and
summary elements of a project.

Quality The use of techniques and activities to achieve, sustain and improve the quality of a
control product or service.

Total Quality Method or approach by which management and employees can involve in the
Management continuous improvement of the production of goods and services.

ISO TQM is a management approach for an organisation, centered on quality based on

8402:1994 participation of all members and aiming at long term success through customer
satisfaction, and benefit to all members of the organisation and society.

OSH A cross-disciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of
people engaged in work or employment.

Ferrous Material with iron element as the base metal.

metal
Non-ferrous Metals that do not contain iron element.
metal
Non-metallic Substances that do not conduct heat or electricity.
material
Advanced Materials with engineered properties created through the development of
material specialized processing and synthesis technology including ceramics, high value-added
metals, electronic materials, composites, polymers and biomaterials.

Smart Also called intelligent or responsive materials, are designed materials that have one
material or more properties that can be significantly changed in a controlled fashion by
external stimuli such as stress, moisture, electric or magnetic fields, light ,
temperature, pH or chemical compounds.

Ohm’s Law The amount of current flowing through a resistor in a circuit is directly proportional
to the voltage across the resistor and is inversely proportional to resistance at the
constant temperature.
Kirchhoff’s The algebraic sum of the currents entering a node is equals to the sum of the current
current law leaving the node.

Kirchhoff’s The algebraic sum of voltage source and voltage drop in a close path in the circuit is
voltage law zero.

Alternating A current which constantly changes in amplitude and reverses direction at regular
current intervals.

Period The time required for an AC waveform to complete on full cycle.

Frequency The number of cycles that an AC waveform completes in one second.

Angular The rate of change of angular displacement with respect to time.

velocity
Peak value The value of voltage / current at the positive or negative maximum with respect to
zero.

Structure A system for transferring loads from one place to another.

Building Transferring the load of people, furniture, the wind, self weight of the building safely
structure down to the foundations and hence into the ground