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Technical Design And Engineering

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. Someone who starts a business.






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






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






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






11. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






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






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






15. An agreement that permits free trade among member nations. The decrease in trade barriers help manufacturers find larger markets for there product.






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






24. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






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






26. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






27. 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.'






28. The formal rules that guide the design process.






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






30. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






31. Creating things through the process of planning.






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






33. Stored energy or energy at rest.






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






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


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






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






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






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






49. The basic framework of a system






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