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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.






2. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






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






5. Creating things through the process of planning.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. A resource that is entered into a system.






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






21. The path by which electric current or pulses flow.






22. Stored energy or energy at rest.






23. The basic framework of a system






24. The formal rules that guide the design process.






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






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






27. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






29. Someone who starts a business.






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






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






32. Energy in motion.






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. The superimposition of sine waves on electromagnetic carrier waves.






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






39. A popular movement.






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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.






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






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


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






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






48. 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.






49. 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.'






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