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1A What Is Engineering?: Reading Technical English For Academic Purposes, Marela Hercezi - Skalicki

The document discusses mechanical engineering and what engineers do. It states that engineers design products and systems to solve problems and meet human needs and that mechanical engineering involves designing and overseeing the manufacture of machines and equipment. It provides examples of some of the tools engineers used in the past, such as slide rules and drawing boards, and how technology has enabled more efficient design and production processes over time.

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1A What Is Engineering?: Reading Technical English For Academic Purposes, Marela Hercezi - Skalicki

The document discusses mechanical engineering and what engineers do. It states that engineers design products and systems to solve problems and meet human needs and that mechanical engineering involves designing and overseeing the manufacture of machines and equipment. It provides examples of some of the tools engineers used in the past, such as slide rules and drawing boards, and how technology has enabled more efficient design and production processes over time.

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Reading Technical English for Academic Purposes, Marela Hercezi - Skalicki

1A WHAT IS ENGINEERING?

p. 22
WORDS

mechanical engineering – strojarstvo to span – premostiti


engineering – tehnika unbridgeable – nepremostiv
engineer – inženjer steel – čelik
engineering design – tehnički projekt, tehnička konstrukcija glass fibre – stakleno vlakno
design – projekt, konstrukcija concrete – beton
to design – projektirati, konstruirati to fashion – prilagoditi
designer – projektant, konstruktor tool – alat
electronic device – elektronički uređaj drawing board – crtaća daska
wealth – bogatstvo, obilje slide rule – logaritamsko računalo
increasingly – sve više i više typewriter – pisaći stroj
i.e. = id est – to jest reference book – priručnik
convenient – pogodan production cost – proizvodni trošak
statement – iskaz, postavka action – radnja
wit – domišljatost, duhovitost activity – djelatnost
in the same vein – u istom duhu (stilu)
tends to – teži prema
therefore – zbog toga
aeronautical engineer – zrakoplovni / aeronautički inženjer
ounce – unca (28.35 grams)
pound – funta (0.45 kg)
cost conscious – koji uzima u obzir cijenu
weight conscious – koji uzima u obzir težinu
accomplish – obaviti, postići
efficiency – djelotvornost
reliability – pouzdanost
suitcase – putni kovčeg
unknown – nepoznat
frontier – granica
achievement – postignuće
aircraft – avion
load – teret
few – malo, nakoliko
breakdown – kvar
press – tiskarski stroj
home sewing machine – šivaći stroj
versatile – svestran
yet – još, već, ipak
to construct – izumiti, projektirati
neat – skladan
enable – osposobiti, omogućiti

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