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Technical Design And Engineering
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The judgement of the end result based upon given criteria.
NANOTECHNOLOGY
MODULATION
HARD DISK
EVALUATION
2. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
ENERGY
RAPID PROTOTYPING
3. Trade of products and services on a global scale.
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
PROFIT
GLOBAL MARKET
ENGINEERING
4. The use of pressurized liquid or gasses to control and transmit power.
BOYLE'S LAW
GLOBAL MARKET
FLUID POWER
KINETIC ENERGY
5. 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.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
KINETIC ENERGY
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
FEEDBACK
6. The long term storage mechanism of a computer. It holds the computer programs used for word processing - playing games - and other tasks.
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
CRITERIA
ENERGY
HARD DISK
7. The use of computers in each stage of the design process.
OPTIMIZATION
ENTREPRENEUR
IDENTITY THEFT
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
8. The knowledge - tools - machines - skills - and other things that people make and do to send and receive information.
EVALUATION
MOTHERBOARD
TEAM
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
9. The use of simple machines to multiply the output force of a mechanical system.
PRODUCTIVITY
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
RECEIVERS
BIO-CONVERSION
10. The path by which electric current or pulses flow.
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
HOLOGRAPHY
WORK
CIRCUIT
11. The basic framework of a system
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
CRITICAL THINKING
INFRASTRUCTURE
12. The field of knowledge relating to materials as they exists on a molecular or atomic level.
ELECTROLYSis...
POWER
CIRCUIT
NANOTECHNOLOGY
13. A device that orbits the Earth and receives messages from one location and transmits them to another.
SATELLITE
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
LOAD
HARD DISK
14. In a computer - the primary circuit board to which all internal componnets are connected either directly or indirectly.
MOTHERBOARD
SATELLITE
WORK
INPUT
15. Heat generated within the Earth as the result of the decay of radioactive materials beneath the Earth's crust.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
ENERGY
BRAINSTORMING
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
16. The combination of knowledge of science - mathematics - technology - and communication to solve technology problems.
ENGINEERING
FEEDBACK
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
NUCLEAR FISSION
17. A circuit in which electricity flows along more than one path.
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
ENGINEERING
EVALUATION
CONSTRAINTS
18. The superimposition of sine waves on electromagnetic carrier waves.
MODULATION
SYNTHESIS
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
ELECTROLYSis...
19. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.
IDENTITY THEFT
SYSTEM
FEEDBACK
NUCLEAR FISSION
20. The imitation - as closely as possible - of the real- life circumstances in which a solution is intended to be used.
TECHNOLOGY
PROFIT
SIMULATION
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
21. The comparison of the amount of goods produced (output) to the amount of resources (input) that produced them
BRAINSTORMING
SATELLITE
PRODUCTIVITY
FEEDBACK
22. The use of lasers to record realistic images of three- dimensional objects.
IMPACTS
AMPLITUDE
HOLOGRAPHY
SIMPLE MACHINES
23. Restriction or limit placed on a product.
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
POWER
ANALYSIS
CONSTRAINTS
24. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.
CRITERIA
NAFTA
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
25. A device that creates a mechanical advantage. Complex machines are based on 6 simple machines in various combinations.
AMPLITUDE
IMPACTS
ENERGY
SIMPLE MACHINES
26. 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.'
SATELLITE
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
TEAM
27. 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.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
CIRCUIT
PROFIT
28. The law that states that if the pressure of a gas increases - the volume decreases (provided that the temperature remains constant).
29. 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.
TREND
NANOTECHNOLOGY
TEAM
POWER
30. Someone who starts a business.
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
ELECTROLYSis...
ENTREPRENEUR
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
31. 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.
LOAD
ANALYSIS
FEEDBACK
BIO-CONVERSION
32. The design of equipment and environments to promote human health - safety - and well- being; sometimes referred to as ergonomics.
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
33. 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.
POWER
ELECTROLYSis...
ENTREPRENEUR
AMPLITUDE
34. The formal rules that guide the design process.
NAFTA
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
ENTREPRENEUR
35. Creating things through the process of planning.
SATELLITE
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
DESIGN
CIRCUIT
36. The process of turning abstractions of thought into concrete ideas.
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
PROFIT
CRITICAL THINKING
AMPLITUDE
37. 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.
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
LOAD
AMPLITUDE
MOTHERBOARD
38. The process of creating the most effective and functional product or process while meeting all the criteria and constraints.
ASSEMBLY LINE
FREQUENCY
OPTIMIZATION
HOLOGRAPHY
39. A language - used to write computer programs - that can easily be translated into machine language.
RECEIVERS
SENSORS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
40. Current flow in which electrons reverse direction at regular intervals.
FEEDBACK
SIMPLE MACHINES
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
41. Current flow in which electrons move in only one direction.
SYSTEM
ENERGY
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
NAFTA
42. A group of people working together to accomplish a common goal.
CONSTRAINTS
SIMPLE MACHINES
GLOBAL MARKET
TEAM
43. A resource that is entered into a system.
INPUT
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
FREQUENCY
FEEDBACK
44. A production process in which the part or product moves down a line from one station to the next while parts are added.
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
PROCESS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
ASSEMBLY LINE
45. The use of force to act on an object in order to move move the object in the same direction as the force.
WORK
HARD DISK
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
PROCESS
46. The act of putting different things together to form a new product or idea.
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
FEEDBACK
SYNTHESIS
PROFIT
47. A unit that collects waves and decodes information contained within those waves.
PROFIT
SYSTEM
RECEIVERS
SYNTHESIS
48. The path by which a message travels from the sender to receiver.
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
ASSEMBLY LINE
SYNTHESIS
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
49. Studying the effects of a given technology to determine its impact.
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
SERIES CIRCUIT
IMPACTS
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
50. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
ENERGY
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
CONSTRAINTS