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Principles Of Engineering
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1. A sketch that shows an object's height - width - and depth in a single view.
Pictorial Sketch
Team
Cross -Sectional Area
Concurrent Force Systems
2. Operational techniques necessary to satisfy all quality requirements; includes process monitoring and the elimination of root causes of unsatisfactory product or service quality performance
Quality Control
Filter
Cable
Strain
3. The structure of or the relationship of the parts in a machine - or in a construction or process comparable to a machine.
Free Fall
Mean Deviation
Pie Chart
Mechanism
4. The information produced by a computer
Electricity
Forming
Output
Roller Support
5. Ratio of distance traveled by the applied effort and resistance force within a system.
Gay-Lussac's Law
Effort Force
Ideal Mechanical Advantage
Resilience
6. Crude or processed material that can be converted by manufacture - processing - or combination into a new and useful product; something with a potential for improvement - development - or elaboration
Pascal's Law
Centroid
Raw Material
Hooke's Law
7. A person who designs any of a variety of things. This usually implies the task of creating drawings or in some way using visual cues to organize work.
Designer
Flow Rate
Conduction
Potentiometer
8. A part of an axle or shaft bent out at right angles - for converting reciprocal to circular motion and vice versa.
Destructive Testing
Qualitative Data
Free Fall
Crank
9. The fractional increase in a material's length due to stress in tension or thermal expansion
Gravitational Energy
Elongation
Electromagnetic Induction
Boyle's Law
10. A device that holds the compressed air in a pneumatic system.
Team
Radiation
Normal Distribution
Receiver Tank
11. The ratio of the increment of some specified form of stress to the increment of some specified form of strain - such as Young's modulus - the bulk modulus - or the shear modulus. Also known as coefficient of elasticity - elasticity modulus - elastic
Purpose
Modulus of Elasticity
Scalar
Wheel and Axle
12. The result of an experiment
Factor of Safety
Outcome
Target Consumer
Team
13. Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds of usually high molecular weight consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units - each a relatively light and simple molecule
Rupture Strength
Polymers
Digital Signal
Velocity
14. The net transfer of electric charge (electron movement along a path) per unit of time.
Crank
Consensus
Current
Material
15. A truss composed of triangles - which will retain its shape even when removed from supports.
Flowchart
Simple Truss
Transistor
Elastic Limit
16. A structure or body which is over- constrained such that there are more unknown supports than there are equations of static equilibrium.
Pressure Releif Valve
Modulus of Elasticity
Statically Indeterminate
Second Law of Thermodynamics
17. The square root of the variance.
Strain
Passive Solar Energy Collection
Process Control
Standard Deviation
18. The contact of a relay that is open when the coil is de- energized
Consensus
Normally Open
Cylinder
Single-Acting Cylinder
19. A subset of a sample space
Elongation
Codes
Event
Recycling
20. A systematic problem- solving strategy - with criteria and constraints - used to develop many possible solutions to solve a problem
Lever
Cable
Digital to Analog
Design Process
21. Conversion of an analog signal to a digital quantity such as binary.
Mechanism
Gusset
Analog to Digital
Pitch
22. Categorical data graph percentage
Moment of Inertia
Algorithm
Ohm
Pie Chart
23. The return to the input of a part of the output of a machine - system - or process
Quality Assurance
Inexhaustible Energy
Sketch
Feedback
24. Mechanical property of a material that indicates the ability of the material to handle overloading before it fractures
Piston
Statistics
Pump
Toughness
25. The difference between the maximum and minimum dimensions allowed within the design of a product.
Generator
Tolerance
R- value
Histogram
26. A step- by- step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end - especially by a computer.
Factor of Safety
Mode
Algorithm
Career
27. An energy source that will never run out
Career
Inexhaustible Energy
Product Development Lifecycle
Axial Stress
28. An air pump that compresses air into a receiver tank.
Newton's First Law
Constraint
Failure Point
Compressor
29. A type of pneumatic pressure control valve that controls the maximum pressure in a branch of a circuit.
Efficiency
Pressure Regulator
Normal Distribution
Ohm
30. A diagram used to isolate a body from its environment - showing all external forces acting upon it.
Outcome
Algorithm
Free Body Diagram
Resilience
31. An organization that works to develop and enforce regulations that implement environmental laws enacted by Congress
Forming
Nondestructive Testing
Histogram
Environmental Protection Agency
32. A subordinate routine; specifically - a sequence of computer instructions for performing a specified task that can be used repeatedly.
Subroutine
Roller Support
Volt
Sensor
33. The probability of an event occurring based upon other event probabilities
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34. The contact of a relay that is closed when the coil is de- energized.
Parallel Circuit
Composite
Normally Closed
Receiver Tank
35. The use of quality control techniques associated with a process.
Failure Point
Electricity
Quality Assurance
Assembly
36. A condition where there are no net external forces acting upon a particle or rigid body and the body remains at rest or continues at a constant velocity.
Parallel Circuit
Scalar
Finishing
Static Equilibrium
37. A continuous band of tough flexible material used to transmit motion and power within a pulley system.
Event
Belt
Thermodynamic System
Flow-Control Valve
38. The tank that holds the fluid in a hydraulic system.
Screw
Reservoir
Joint
Mean
39. The use of gas flowing under pressure to transmit power from one location to another.
Pneumatics
Photocell
Feedback
Piston
40. Machining a surface to size with a fine feed produced in a lathe - milling machine - or grinder
Finishing
Flowchart
Structure
Sketch
41. A part of the physical world as described by its thermodynamic properties such as temperature - volume - pressure - concentration - surface tension - and viscosity.
Accuracy
U-Value
Tension
Manufacturing
42. A valve that allows flow in one direction but prevents flow in the opposite direction.
Sense
Mean Deviation
Check Valve
Pulley
43. The volume of fluid that moves through a system in a given period of time.
Actual Mechanical Advantage
Moment of Inertia
Flow Rate
Gravitational Energy
44. A measure of how easily a material can be twisted
Single-Acting Cylinder
Accuracy
Potentiometer
Shear Stress
45. Processes that remove material to change the size - shape - or surface of a part. There are two groups of separating processes: machining and shearing
Closed Loop System
Subtractive
Pressure Releif Valve
Single-Acting Cylinder
46. A machine for producing power in which a wheel or rotor is made to revolve by a fast- moving flow of water - steam - gas - or air
Tolerance
Standar Deviation
Sense
Turbine
47. The use of a liquid flowing under pressure to transmit power from one location to another
Manufacturing
Hydraulics
Flow-Control Valve
Elongation
48. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
Concurrent Force Systems
Ampere
Active Solar Energy Collection
Energy Conservation
49. A small circuit board that controls all the processing within a computer.
Cylinder
Microprocessor
Simple Truss
Flow Meter
50. An external force applied to an object.
Heat
Outcome
Effort Force
Raw Material
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