Engineering Strategies and Practice
APS 111 & 113
2014 – Midterm Vocabulary List and information
Information: The following instructions will appear on the first page of the midterm test.
This is a 70-minute midterm exam. There are 36 questions on the test. It is a multiple-choice midterm and is
closed book. No aids are permitted. Read each question thoroughly and provide the answer on the answer
sheet. Be sure to fill out the answer sheet clearly with no overlaps. Fill out the answer sheet using a pencil.
Erase any errors completely. One answer per question and each question is worth 1 mark. There is no
deduction for wrong answers. Select the answer that best satisfies the question. You are not required to hand
in the exam question booklet. You may tear off the appendix to ease the answering of questions.
Case study: The case study will appear in an appendix to the test. The case study deals with a label adhering
problem. We are assuming you have read and understood everything in the case study. If you have
questions about the case study, please ask on Piazza before the exam. No questions about the case study
will be answered during the exam. We do not expect you to have formulated a solution for this problem.
Vocabulary: We will assume that you know (and can answer questions about) the terms that appear in the
textbook, case study and readings, or that have appeared in lecture.
The following is a list of some additional words you may find on the Midterm. It does not include all of the
words on the exam, and some of these words will not appear on the exam. Words that have been
specifically defined or discussed in lecture or readings are not listed. Familiarity with these words will help
you move more quickly through the exam. You should also be familiar with their plural form, past tense
form, etc. If you already have a good understanding of the common meaning of these words, then there is
no need to look them up in a dictionary, or spend any additional time studying them.
ability
abstract
acceptable
accommodate
activate
active
activity
actually
additional
address
adhere
adhesive
adjectives
alternatives
ant
anxiety
application
apply
appropriate
arise
aspects
assignments
assist
attach
avoid
aware
basic
best
blame
bond
boundary
box
break
budget
buy
cardboard
cause
characteristics
check-in
choice
circle
circulate
citation
cite
coffee
cohesion
commitment
committing
common
company
comparison
completion
concepts
conditions
conflict
connection
consequences
contract
contribute
contribution
controversies
convey
Convocation Hall
correct
cover
create
credibility
credit
current
customer
database
deadline
decommission
decorate
define
deliver
describe
detail
device
dimensions
directly
discussion
disrupt
ears
earth
effective
elevator pitch
eliminate
enable
encourage
entire
entry
equal
equipment
establish
evaluate
evidence
example
existing
expedite
expression
extreme
features
feet
first-person
fix
flow
following
form
formal
format
fulfill
gather
gecko
generally
generate
given
glue
goals
handling
hands
hardware
help
hot
humidity
idea
ideation
identify
imagine
implementation
important
inactive
inclusion
indoor
ink
input
investigate
issues
item
job
join
key
label
late
LEGO
limited
liquid
list
main
major
meeting
minor
month
multiple
name
net
nouns
occur
operating
opposed
optimal
organization
outdoor
output
overall
paragraph
pattern
perform
permanent
persist
plagiarism
point
prefer
pressure
prior
produce
progress
project
propagate
properties
prototype
punish
question
quotation marks
reaction
2
reader
reasoning
redo
reduce
refer
reference
remain
RFID chips
routine
schedule
score
search
section
sense
sentence
serious
severe
shared
shelf life
shopping mall
show
shown
sound
source
specificity
square-bracket
stand-alone
statement
step
stick
storage
stress
structure
style
styrofoam cup
substrate
succinct
sugar
suggest
summarize
support
surface
surrounding
synonyms
system
task
technique
temperature
topic
trade-off
transmit
transport
types
typical
unfamiliar
variety
verbs
version
virtual
visualize
voice
well-prepared
Wikipedia
words
work
worker
worry
writer
writing
year