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Technical Design And Engineering
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1. Current flow in which electrons reverse direction at regular intervals.
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
2. Someone who starts a business.
BRAINSTORMING
ENTREPRENEUR
SATELLITE
POWER
3. The formal rules that guide the design process.
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
ENERGY
ASSEMBLY LINE
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
4. A circuit in which electricity flows along more than one path.
TECHNOLOGY
CIRCUIT
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
SIMULATION
5. A unit that collects waves and decodes information contained within those waves.
POTENTIAL ENERGY
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
RECEIVERS
IDENTITY THEFT
6. A production process in which the part or product moves down a line from one station to the next while parts are added.
PRODUCTIVITY
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
ASSEMBLY LINE
7. In a computer - the primary circuit board to which all internal componnets are connected either directly or indirectly.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
SIMPLE MACHINES
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
MOTHERBOARD
8. A series of operations that includes all of the activities that must be performed in order for the system to yield the expected result.
PROCESS
PRODUCTIVITY
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
9. 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.
SYNTHESIS
IMPACTS
RAPID PROTOTYPING
FLUID POWER
10. A production system in which products are made one at a time according to customer's specifications.
NANOTECHNOLOGY
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
KINETIC ENERGY
ENTREPRENEUR
11. A circuit in which electricity flows along a single path to more than one device.
FEEDBACK
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
SERIES CIRCUIT
AMPLITUDE
12. 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.
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
AMPLITUDE
CIRCUIT
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
13. An agreement that permits free trade among member nations. The decrease in trade barriers help manufacturers find larger markets for there product.
FREQUENCY
NAFTA
AMPLITUDE
SENSORS
14. The act of breaking a particular subject into different parts to achieve clarity of understanding.
PROCESS
BRAINSTORMING
ANALYSIS
NANOTECHNOLOGY
15. The process of turning abstractions of thought into concrete ideas.
MOTHERBOARD
BOYLE'S LAW
CRITICAL THINKING
SIMPLE MACHINES
16. Trade of products and services on a global scale.
GLOBAL MARKET
POWER
ENGINEERING
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
17. The combination of knowledge of science - mathematics - technology - and communication to solve technology problems.
ENGINEERING
NAFTA
ANALYSIS
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
18. A device capable of detecting (sensing) changes in its environment; light and movement are examples.
ANALYSIS
SENSORS
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
NUCLEAR FISSION
19. Restriction or limit placed on a product.
NUCLEAR FISSION
ENTREPRENEUR
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
CONSTRAINTS
20. 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.
INFRASTRUCTURE
LOAD
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
MOTHERBOARD
21. A popular movement.
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
TECHNOLOGY
TREND
FLUID POWER
22. The unlawful acquisition of some one's personal information for use without their consent.
IDENTITY THEFT
OPTIMIZATION
ENTREPRENEUR
SENSORS
23. The knowledge - tools - machines - skills - and other things that people make and do to send and receive information.
ANALYSIS
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
TREND
POWER
24. Studying the effects of a given technology to determine its impact.
BIO-CONVERSION
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
RECEIVERS
25. 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.'
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
CRITERIA
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
26. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.
NUCLEAR FISSION
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
LOAD
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
27. Heat generated within the Earth as the result of the decay of radioactive materials beneath the Earth's crust.
SYNTHESIS
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
IMPACTS
28. 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.
POTENTIAL ENERGY
SYSTEM
PROFIT
BRAINSTORMING
29. The use of force to act on an object in order to move move the object in the same direction as the force.
WORK
CRITERIA
ENERGY
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
30. The money a business makes after all expenses have been paid
AMPLITUDE
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
PROFIT
SENSORS
31. The path by which electric current or pulses flow.
OPTIMIZATION
EVALUATION
ENTREPRENEUR
CIRCUIT
32. A language - used to write computer programs - that can easily be translated into machine language.
SYSTEM
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
ENERGY
PRODUCTIVITY
33. The path by which a message travels from the sender to receiver.
NAFTA
ENERGY
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
CRITERIA
34. The act of putting different things together to form a new product or idea.
POTENTIAL ENERGY
OPTIMIZATION
SYNTHESIS
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
35. 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.
ELECTROLYSis...
SENSORS
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
MODULATION
36. The use of a computer system to produce technical drawings and/or design a product.
OPTIMIZATION
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
FEEDBACK
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
37. The technology field focused on sending messages and other in formation using different means.
SYSTEM
TEAM
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
AMPLITUDE
38. The comparison of the amount of goods produced (output) to the amount of resources (input) that produced them
SIMPLE MACHINES
PRODUCTIVITY
SYNTHESIS
ASSEMBLY LINE
39. The long term storage mechanism of a computer. It holds the computer programs used for word processing - playing games - and other tasks.
ELECTROLYSis...
HARD DISK
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
NUCLEAR FISSION
40. The use of lasers to record realistic images of three- dimensional objects.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
SENSORS
HOLOGRAPHY
PRODUCTIVITY
41. The imitation - as closely as possible - of the real- life circumstances in which a solution is intended to be used.
IDENTITY THEFT
TECHNOLOGY
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
SIMULATION
42. 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.
FEEDBACK
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
HOLOGRAPHY
SYSTEM
43. 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.
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
SERIES CIRCUIT
KINETIC ENERGY
ENERGY
44. A group of people working together to accomplish a common goal.
TECHNOLOGY
TEAM
NUCLEAR FISSION
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
45. The law that states that if the pressure of a gas increases - the volume decreases (provided that the temperature remains constant).
46. A group of parts that work together to accomplish a goal. The basic parts of a system are input - process - and output.
NUCLEAR FISSION
FLUID POWER
SYSTEM
IMPACTS
47. The superimposition of sine waves on electromagnetic carrier waves.
ANALYSIS
SERIES CIRCUIT
MODULATION
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
48. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
PRODUCTIVITY
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
SERIES CIRCUIT
ENERGY
49. The process of creating the most effective and functional product or process while meeting all the criteria and constraints.
EVALUATION
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
OPTIMIZATION
ENGINEERING
50. A device that orbits the Earth and receives messages from one location and transmits them to another.
MOTHERBOARD
NANOTECHNOLOGY
BRAINSTORMING
SATELLITE