Midterm Examination

Indigenous Engineering

Name: CHILAGAN, DARYL ADRIAN N.

Year: BSCE-3
Date: March 26, 2021

I. TRUE or FALSE (3pts each)

FALSE 1. Engineering is not a problem based practically oriented discipline.

FALSE 2. Current paradigms around such factors appear not settled and familiar.

FALSE 3. In the 21st century perspectives on the value of sustainable approaches to maintaining quality
of life are not changing.

FALSE 4. Engineers are not concerned with finding technical and economically effective solutions to
concrete challenges.

FALSE 5. Appreciating that essentially all models are wrong and not useful.

FALSE 6. Engineers learn to deal with the world, and not with human problems

FALSE 7. Ma’rib Dam is a vast and complex Aquaculture system consisting of constructed dams.

FALSE 8. Budj Bim suffered many breaches, partly due to warfare in the region.

FALSE 9. The way we gather skills, as well as the types of skills we seek and recognize, depends on the
society we live in.

FALSE 10. The rapid and unsuccessful adoption of the technology of another society was exceptional.

II. IDENTIFICATION (3pts each)

Marib Dam 1. Suffered many breaches, partly due to warfare in the region.

Budj Bim 2. Is a vast and complex Aquaculture system consisting of constructed dams.

Dreaming 3. A combination of meaning (about life and reality).

Aboriginal People 4. They’ve been sharing knowledge through oral means on how to live in and
maintain both themselves and their physical and social environment.

Australia 5. Used fire for rejuvenation for thousands of years.

Environmental knowledge 6. It is significantly tied into the language.

Technology 7. This is the embodiment of an individual’s knowledge of the artefact created.

Eric Willnot 8. He worked as an engineering in the 1980’s and 90’s and developed a system for
continuously variable-ratio transmission for use in gearing.

2013 9. The year where Aboriginal perspectives were incorporated into an existing first year subject at
Wollongong University.

Engineers 10. They learn to deal with the world, and with human problems, in a manner that uniquely
creates an Engineering way of knowing.

III.MATCHING TYPE

G 1.Communication A. Chemical Engineering

J 2.Sustainability B. Acoustics
D 3.Physical infrastructures urban/living C. Construction
environments
H 4.Extraction D. Civil
K 5.Force and Energy E. Electrical
L 6.Teaching Knowledge F. Network Engineering
A 7.Convert raw materials into useable Products G. Telecommunications
E 8.Electrical energy generations and usage H. Mining
C 9.Material and construction techniques I. Naval architecture
B 10.How sound propagated and generated J. Project Management
K. Mechanical
L. Information Technology

Corrected By: Argival P. Palayon