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Technical Design And Engineering
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1. The path by which a message travels from the sender to receiver.
PROFIT
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
IMPACTS
LOAD
2. The design of equipment and environments to promote human health - safety - and well- being; sometimes referred to as ergonomics.
HARD DISK
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
NANOTECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
3. Restriction or limit placed on a product.
FLUID POWER
LOAD
CONSTRAINTS
SENSORS
4. 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)
ENERGY
RECEIVERS
PRODUCTIVITY
5. A language - used to write computer programs - that can easily be translated into machine language.
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
SYNTHESIS
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
6. An agreement that permits free trade among member nations. The decrease in trade barriers help manufacturers find larger markets for there product.
NAFTA
AMPLITUDE
LOAD
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
7. 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.
SERIES CIRCUIT
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
POTENTIAL ENERGY
BRAINSTORMING
8. A group of parts that work together to accomplish a goal. The basic parts of a system are input - process - and output.
TREND
OPTIMIZATION
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
SYSTEM
9. 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.
BIO-CONVERSION
SYSTEM
NUCLEAR FISSION
POWER
10. The formal rules that guide the design process.
CONSTRAINTS
SYNTHESIS
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
PROFIT
11. 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.
WORK
FEEDBACK
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
PROCESS
12. Stored energy or energy at rest.
MODULATION
POTENTIAL ENERGY
ANALYSIS
SIMULATION
13. The comparison of the amount of goods produced (output) to the amount of resources (input) that produced them
PRODUCTIVITY
SYNTHESIS
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
NANOTECHNOLOGY
14. A circuit in which electricity flows along a single path to more than one device.
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
ENTREPRENEUR
SERIES CIRCUIT
NUCLEAR FISSION
15. In a computer - the primary circuit board to which all internal componnets are connected either directly or indirectly.
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
MOTHERBOARD
PROFIT
16. A unit that collects waves and decodes information contained within those waves.
PROFIT
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
TREND
RECEIVERS
17. 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.
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
IMPACTS
AMPLITUDE
PROCESS
18. 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.
FLUID POWER
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
POWER
INPUT
19. A series of operations that includes all of the activities that must be performed in order for the system to yield the expected result.
ASSEMBLY LINE
PROCESS
PROFIT
HARD DISK
20. Processes and knowledge that can be used to extend human abilities as well as satisfy human needs and wants.
TECHNOLOGY
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
ENGINEERING
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
21. The superimposition of sine waves on electromagnetic carrier waves.
SYSTEM
NANOTECHNOLOGY
MODULATION
IMPACTS
22. Studying the effects of a given technology to determine its impact.
DESIGN
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
POWER
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
23. The use of pressurized liquid or gasses to control and transmit power.
FLUID POWER
SIMPLE MACHINES
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
ELECTROLYSis...
24. The unlawful acquisition of some one's personal information for use without their consent.
OPTIMIZATION
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
POWER
IDENTITY THEFT
25. Current flow in which electrons reverse direction at regular intervals.
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
FEEDBACK
IDENTITY THEFT
LOAD
26. The use of force to act on an object in order to move move the object in the same direction as the force.
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
WORK
SENSORS
CRITERIA
27. The use of computers in each stage of the design process.
RAPID PROTOTYPING
POTENTIAL ENERGY
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
28. The use of lasers to record realistic images of three- dimensional objects.
HOLOGRAPHY
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
RAPID PROTOTYPING
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
29. The act of breaking a particular subject into different parts to achieve clarity of understanding.
FEEDBACK
ANALYSIS
RECEIVERS
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
30. The process of turning abstractions of thought into concrete ideas.
IDENTITY THEFT
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
GLOBAL MARKET
CRITICAL THINKING
31. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
POTENTIAL ENERGY
NUCLEAR FISSION
SIMPLE MACHINES
32. The imitation - as closely as possible - of the real- life circumstances in which a solution is intended to be used.
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
SIMULATION
IDENTITY THEFT
33. A production system in which products are made one at a time according to customer's specifications.
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
POTENTIAL ENERGY
TEAM
TREND
34. The use of simple machines to multiply the output force of a mechanical system.
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
TEAM
35. The money a business makes after all expenses have been paid
INFRASTRUCTURE
ANALYSIS
PROFIT
HOLOGRAPHY
36. A wave created by electric and magnetic fields;it travels through the air like ripples in a pool of water.
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
NAFTA
AMPLITUDE
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
37. Creating things through the process of planning.
NUCLEAR FISSION
DESIGN
FREQUENCY
WORK
38. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
IMPACTS
FREQUENCY
ELECTROLYSis...
ENERGY
39. A device that creates a mechanical advantage. Complex machines are based on 6 simple machines in various combinations.
IMPACTS
SIMPLE MACHINES
GLOBAL MARKET
BRAINSTORMING
40. 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.
NUCLEAR FISSION
ANALYSIS
FREQUENCY
INFRASTRUCTURE
41. The combination of knowledge of science - mathematics - technology - and communication to solve technology problems.
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
BOYLE'S LAW
LOAD
ENGINEERING
42. Heat generated within the Earth as the result of the decay of radioactive materials beneath the Earth's crust.
BIO-CONVERSION
ASSEMBLY LINE
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
ELECTROLYSis...
43. The path by which electric current or pulses flow.
PROFIT
ENERGY
CIRCUIT
TEAM
44. The long term storage mechanism of a computer. It holds the computer programs used for word processing - playing games - and other tasks.
HARD DISK
SIMULATION
SYNTHESIS
RECEIVERS
45. 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.
MODULATION
IMPACTS
SIMULATION
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
46. The judgement of the end result based upon given criteria.
POWER
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
BIO-CONVERSION
EVALUATION
47. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.
PROCESS
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
CRITERIA
FLUID POWER
48. A resource that is entered into a system.
INPUT
ELECTROLYSis...
CRITICAL THINKING
SATELLITE
49. Energy in motion.
PRODUCTIVITY
KINETIC ENERGY
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
50. A popular movement.
NUCLEAR FISSION
RECEIVERS
CRITERIA
TREND