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Technical Design And Engineering
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1. 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.
FLUID POWER
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
LOAD
INPUT
2. A device that creates a mechanical advantage. Complex machines are based on 6 simple machines in various combinations.
SIMPLE MACHINES
AMPLITUDE
ENGINEERING
POWER
3. Heat generated within the Earth as the result of the decay of radioactive materials beneath the Earth's crust.
BRAINSTORMING
LOAD
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
FEEDBACK
4. A device capable of detecting (sensing) changes in its environment; light and movement are examples.
HARD DISK
ENTREPRENEUR
SENSORS
EVALUATION
5. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.
NUCLEAR FISSION
ENGINEERING
FLUID POWER
CIRCUIT
6. The design of equipment and environments to promote human health - safety - and well- being; sometimes referred to as ergonomics.
MOTHERBOARD
SIMPLE MACHINES
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
EVALUATION
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.
EVALUATION
KINETIC ENERGY
RAPID PROTOTYPING
FEEDBACK
8. A wave created by electric and magnetic fields;it travels through the air like ripples in a pool of water.
SYNTHESIS
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
CRITICAL THINKING
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
9. A production system in which products are made one at a time according to customer's specifications.
ASSEMBLY LINE
INPUT
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
FLUID POWER
10. Trade of products and services on a global scale.
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
ENERGY
POTENTIAL ENERGY
GLOBAL MARKET
11. The field of knowledge relating to materials as they exists on a molecular or atomic level.
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
SATELLITE
NANOTECHNOLOGY
BRAINSTORMING
12. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
TECHNOLOGY
SIMPLE MACHINES
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
ENERGY
13. The use of lasers to record realistic images of three- dimensional objects.
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
HOLOGRAPHY
FLUID POWER
INFRASTRUCTURE
14. Someone who starts a business.
LOAD
INFRASTRUCTURE
TECHNOLOGY
ENTREPRENEUR
15. Current flow in which electrons move in only one direction.
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
GLOBAL MARKET
WORK
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
16. The formal rules that guide the design process.
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
MOTHERBOARD
SYSTEM
LOAD
17. 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.
CRITERIA
POWER
PROFIT
ELECTROLYSis...
18. A group of parts that work together to accomplish a goal. The basic parts of a system are input - process - and output.
SYSTEM
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
19. 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.'
INPUT
BRAINSTORMING
HOLOGRAPHY
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
20. The process of turning abstractions of thought into concrete ideas.
ENERGY
SATELLITE
IDENTITY THEFT
CRITICAL THINKING
21. Creating things through the process of planning.
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
BOYLE'S LAW
DESIGN
ENTREPRENEUR
22. The imitation - as closely as possible - of the real- life circumstances in which a solution is intended to be used.
SENSORS
HARD DISK
SIMULATION
TREND
23. The use of a computer system to produce technical drawings and/or design a product.
KINETIC ENERGY
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
ANALYSIS
NANOTECHNOLOGY
24. The money a business makes after all expenses have been paid
BIO-CONVERSION
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
PROFIT
AMPLITUDE
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.
KINETIC ENERGY
LOAD
CONSTRAINTS
BRAINSTORMING
26. An agreement that permits free trade among member nations. The decrease in trade barriers help manufacturers find larger markets for there product.
NAFTA
TREND
SERIES CIRCUIT
CIRCUIT
27. The use of force to act on an object in order to move move the object in the same direction as the force.
SYNTHESIS
WORK
BOYLE'S LAW
AMPLITUDE
28. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
MOTHERBOARD
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
ENERGY
OPTIMIZATION
29. The knowledge - tools - machines - skills - and other things that people make and do to send and receive information.
ENERGY
IDENTITY THEFT
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
INPUT
30. The superimposition of sine waves on electromagnetic carrier waves.
GLOBAL MARKET
SERIES CIRCUIT
WORK
MODULATION
31. The use of simple machines to multiply the output force of a mechanical system.
DESIGN
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
IMPACTS
32. The comparison of the amount of goods produced (output) to the amount of resources (input) that produced them
PRODUCTIVITY
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
SYNTHESIS
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
33. The judgement of the end result based upon given criteria.
EVALUATION
IDENTITY THEFT
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
MODULATION
34. 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.
IMPACTS
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
KINETIC ENERGY
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
35. The path by which a message travels from the sender to receiver.
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
IDENTITY THEFT
MOTHERBOARD
FLUID POWER
36. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.
SYSTEM
TEAM
OPTIMIZATION
CRITERIA
37. The path by which electric current or pulses flow.
SATELLITE
CIRCUIT
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
38. In a computer - the primary circuit board to which all internal componnets are connected either directly or indirectly.
IDENTITY THEFT
KINETIC ENERGY
MOTHERBOARD
NUCLEAR FISSION
39. A device that orbits the Earth and receives messages from one location and transmits them to another.
SATELLITE
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
ANALYSIS
40. The use of computers in each stage of the design process.
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
CRITICAL THINKING
CRITERIA
41. The process of creating the most effective and functional product or process while meeting all the criteria and constraints.
OPTIMIZATION
SYSTEM
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
POTENTIAL ENERGY
42. Restriction or limit placed on a product.
INPUT
AMPLITUDE
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
CONSTRAINTS
43. A production process in which the part or product moves down a line from one station to the next while parts are added.
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
NAFTA
ASSEMBLY LINE
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
44. 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.
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
ENTREPRENEUR
ENGINEERING
45. The combination of knowledge of science - mathematics - technology - and communication to solve technology problems.
ENGINEERING
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
NANOTECHNOLOGY
INPUT
46. A group of people working together to accomplish a common goal.
TEAM
CONSTRAINTS
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
POWER
47. A language - used to write computer programs - that can easily be translated into machine language.
CONSTRAINTS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
SIMULATION
48. The long term storage mechanism of a computer. It holds the computer programs used for word processing - playing games - and other tasks.
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
RAPID PROTOTYPING
ENERGY
HARD DISK
49. The act of breaking a particular subject into different parts to achieve clarity of understanding.
NAFTA
PRODUCTIVITY
ANALYSIS
PROFIT
50. Current flow in which electrons reverse direction at regular intervals.
ENTREPRENEUR
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
ASSEMBLY LINE
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT