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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. Studying the effects of a given technology to determine its impact.






2. The path by which a message travels from the sender to receiver.






3. The act of putting different things together to form a new product or idea.






4. The use of a computer system to produce technical drawings and/or design a product.






5. The amount of resistance the power system must overcome or - alternatively - the amount of force output by the power system: also can be referred to as weight or pressure.






6. The law that states that if the pressure of a gas increases - the volume decreases (provided that the temperature remains constant).


7. Any information about the output of a system that is returned to the system for the purpose of determining whether or not the system is functioning as it should.






8. The imitation - as closely as possible - of the real- life circumstances in which a solution is intended to be used.






9. The knowledge - tools - machines - skills - and other things that people make and do to send and receive information.






10. Creating things through the process of planning.






11. The height of a wave measured from the top of its peak to the bottom of its trough. It is an indicator of the strength of a wave.






12. A specialized processor that resides directly on the motherboard of a computer. It can be thought as the brain of a computer. It processes the data; also referred to as a microprocessor or a 'computer within the computer.'






13. A production system in which a limited quantity of a part or product is made. After the production run - the machines are retooled or changed over to accommodate the production of a different part or product.






14. A wave created by electric and magnetic fields;it travels through the air like ripples in a pool of water.






15. A production process in which the part or product moves down a line from one station to the next while parts are added.






16. A circuit in which electricity flows along more than one path.






17. A popular movement.






18. The number of waves that pass through a given point in one second. It is commonly measured in a unit called hertz. 1Hz is equal to one complete wave cycle in one second.






19. A very small solid state panel that contains light sensitive photo- sites or photo- diodes. The CCD uses the photo- sites to convert light into electrical signals transformed into an image.






20. The comparison of the amount of goods produced (output) to the amount of resources (input) that produced them






21. A circuit in which electricity flows along a single path to more than one device.






22. A device that orbits the Earth and receives messages from one location and transmits them to another.






23. The use of computers in each stage of the design process.






24. The money a business makes after all expenses have been paid






25. The use of lasers to record realistic images of three- dimensional objects.






26. A language - used to write computer programs - that can easily be translated into machine language.






27. The act of breaking a particular subject into different parts to achieve clarity of understanding.






28. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






29. A device that creates a mechanical advantage. Complex machines are based on 6 simple machines in various combinations.






30. The formal rules that guide the design process.






31. A group of parts that work together to accomplish a goal. The basic parts of a system are input - process - and output.






32. Someone who starts a business.






33. A device capable of detecting (sensing) changes in its environment; light and movement are examples.






34. Current flow in which electrons reverse direction at regular intervals.






35. The use of simple machines to multiply the output force of a mechanical system.






36. The field of knowledge relating to materials as they exists on a molecular or atomic level.






37. The design of equipment and environments to promote human health - safety - and well- being; sometimes referred to as ergonomics.






38. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






39. An activity in which two or more people try to think of as many possible solutions to a problem as they can. Ideas are not evaluated or criticized at this time.






40. In a computer - the primary circuit board to which all internal componnets are connected either directly or indirectly.






41. The unlawful acquisition of some one's personal information for use without their consent.






42. The process of creating the most effective and functional product or process while meeting all the criteria and constraints.






43. A series of operations that includes all of the activities that must be performed in order for the system to yield the expected result.






44. The passage of electric current through an electrolytic fluid for the purpose of separating molecules.






45. The use of force to act on an object in order to move move the object in the same direction as the force.






46. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.






47. A resource that is entered into a system.






48. A group of people working together to accomplish a common goal.






49. The long term storage mechanism of a computer. It holds the computer programs used for word processing - playing games - and other tasks.






50. Heat generated within the Earth as the result of the decay of radioactive materials beneath the Earth's crust.