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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An agreement that permits free trade among member nations. The decrease in trade barriers help manufacturers find larger markets for there product.






2. The judgement of the end result based upon given criteria.






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






4. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






5. The use of pressurized liquid or gasses to control and transmit power.






6. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






8. The effect of a system's processes and/or output on the systems environment. this effect can be either positive - negative - or in some cases both.






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






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






11. The combination of knowledge of science - mathematics - technology - and communication to solve technology problems.






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






13. Energy in motion.






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. A resource that is entered into a system.






18. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






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






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






21. A production system in which products are made one at a time according to customer's specifications.






22. Someone who starts a business.






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






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






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


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






29. A popular movement.






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






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






32. The use of 3D CAD drawings to create real models of a product within a sort of time.






33. A unit that collects waves and decodes information contained within those waves.






34. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






36. Trade of products and services on a global scale.






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






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






39. The technology field focused on sending messages and other in formation using different means.






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






41. Processes and knowledge that can be used to extend human abilities as well as satisfy human needs and wants.






42. The measure of work done over a period of time as energy is converted from one form to another or transferred from one place to another.






43. Creating things through the process of planning.






44. Current flow in which electrons move in only one direction.






45. Studying the effects of a given technology to determine its impact.






46. 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.






47. 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.'






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






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






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