Hearing Ms. Erica Roberts speak on here on her career really made me realize that there's a bright side to all things. You always have to start off small and work your way up. Its just like in class you may not want to do the work, but the work has a bright side to it and will prepare you for the next level. Her speech will make me work a lot harder at becoming successful.

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Mid-Term Study Guide

1. Lab Colors PPT Assignment
2. Reverse Engineering (Kevin Doe Video)
3. TSA website – Main facts
4. What is a CTSO
5. Color for TSA
6. Go back and review the CTSO webinar video quiz
7. Go back and look at the information about the history of technology – know your time periods and definitions from the assignment titled “Designing your vocabulary words.”
8. Know what the purpose of an engineer’s design notebook is (format, design, etc.)
9. Architectural scale measurements
10. Metric system conversions
11. Engineering Lettered
12. Rapid Prototyping (Faster Solutions for a Brighter Future assignment)
13. Scale Factor
14. Understand what drafting is
15. Parametric/Surface modeling
16. Orthographic/Multi – View Drawing
17. Future of Engineering Blog Post
18. TSA competitive events blog post
19. Maker Movement
20. Know the difference between wire frame models, surface, and solid models

VOCABULARY

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.