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Technical Design And 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.
EVALUATION
ENTREPRENEUR
PROCESS
BRAINSTORMING
2. The use of lasers to record realistic images of three- dimensional objects.
FEEDBACK
HOLOGRAPHY
SIMPLE MACHINES
SIMULATION
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.
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
PROFIT
AMPLITUDE
4. The comparison of the amount of goods produced (output) to the amount of resources (input) that produced them
PRODUCTIVITY
AMPLITUDE
TREND
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
5. Trade of products and services on a global scale.
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
NUCLEAR FISSION
GLOBAL MARKET
FREQUENCY
6. The use of simple machines to multiply the output force of a mechanical system.
ENERGY
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
7. Someone who starts a business.
NANOTECHNOLOGY
ENTREPRENEUR
DESIGN
KINETIC ENERGY
8. The act of breaking a particular subject into different parts to achieve clarity of understanding.
IDENTITY THEFT
OPTIMIZATION
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
ANALYSIS
9. A group of people working together to accomplish a common goal.
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
TEAM
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
10. The judgement of the end result based upon given criteria.
EVALUATION
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
INFRASTRUCTURE
11. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
ASSEMBLY LINE
SENSORS
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
ENERGY
12. The design of equipment and environments to promote human health - safety - and well- being; sometimes referred to as ergonomics.
TECHNOLOGY
ANALYSIS
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
13. The unlawful acquisition of some one's personal information for use without their consent.
NANOTECHNOLOGY
IDENTITY THEFT
RAPID PROTOTYPING
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
14. The knowledge - tools - machines - skills - and other things that people make and do to send and receive information.
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
CIRCUIT
DESIGN
15. An agreement that permits free trade among member nations. The decrease in trade barriers help manufacturers find larger markets for there product.
FLUID POWER
SATELLITE
NAFTA
LOAD
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.
WORK
LOAD
SYNTHESIS
CONSTRAINTS
17. Current flow in which electrons move in only one direction.
NANOTECHNOLOGY
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
ENTREPRENEUR
CIRCUIT
18. The path by which electric current or pulses flow.
CIRCUIT
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
NUCLEAR FISSION
19. A wave created by electric and magnetic fields;it travels through the air like ripples in a pool of water.
ANALYSIS
HARD DISK
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
SIMULATION
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.
CONSTRAINTS
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
SATELLITE
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
21. A circuit in which electricity flows along more than one path.
TECHNOLOGY
PRODUCTIVITY
ELECTROLYSis...
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
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.
BOYLE'S LAW
MODULATION
BRAINSTORMING
DESIGN
23. A group of parts that work together to accomplish a goal. The basic parts of a system are input - process - and output.
BOYLE'S LAW
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
SYSTEM
SENSORS
24. A method of obtaining energy from waste products
BIO-CONVERSION
TEAM
ENTREPRENEUR
RECEIVERS
25. Heat generated within the Earth as the result of the decay of radioactive materials beneath the Earth's crust.
FLUID POWER
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
IMPACTS
PROFIT
26. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
ENERGY
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
PROCESS
SYNTHESIS
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.'
TREND
SYNTHESIS
POWER
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
28. The formal rules that guide the design process.
CRITERIA
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
SENSORS
29. A language - used to write computer programs - that can easily be translated into machine language.
OPTIMIZATION
SENSORS
MOTHERBOARD
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
30. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.
MOTHERBOARD
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
NUCLEAR FISSION
EVALUATION
31. Creating things through the process of planning.
ASSEMBLY LINE
POTENTIAL ENERGY
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
DESIGN
32. Current flow in which electrons reverse direction at regular intervals.
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
LOAD
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
SIMPLE MACHINES
33. Stored energy or energy at rest.
FEEDBACK
POTENTIAL ENERGY
DESIGN
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
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.
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
DESIGN
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
POTENTIAL ENERGY
35. The use of pressurized liquid or gasses to control and transmit power.
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
SIMPLE MACHINES
EVALUATION
FLUID POWER
36. A unit that collects waves and decodes information contained within those waves.
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
RECEIVERS
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
37. The act of putting different things together to form a new product or idea.
SERIES CIRCUIT
SENSORS
SYNTHESIS
MOTHERBOARD
38. A circuit in which electricity flows along a single path to more than one device.
PROCESS
SYNTHESIS
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
SERIES CIRCUIT
39. The path by which a message travels from the sender to receiver.
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
PROCESS
ENTREPRENEUR
40. Studying the effects of a given technology to determine its impact.
SIMULATION
SERIES CIRCUIT
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
41. The money a business makes after all expenses have been paid
IDENTITY THEFT
PROFIT
WORK
MOTHERBOARD
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.
IMPACTS
SIMULATION
FREQUENCY
PRODUCTIVITY
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.
IMPACTS
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
ASSEMBLY LINE
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
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.
BRAINSTORMING
INPUT
EVALUATION
ASSEMBLY LINE
46. Processes and knowledge that can be used to extend human abilities as well as satisfy human needs and wants.
WORK
SENSORS
TECHNOLOGY
IMPACTS
47. The use of force to act on an object in order to move move the object in the same direction as the force.
KINETIC ENERGY
TREND
IDENTITY THEFT
WORK
48. In a computer - the primary circuit board to which all internal componnets are connected either directly or indirectly.
SENSORS
IMPACTS
MOTHERBOARD
SIMULATION
49. The basic framework of a system
CIRCUIT
POWER
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
INFRASTRUCTURE
50. The passage of electric current through an electrolytic fluid for the purpose of separating molecules.
TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
FLUID POWER
ELECTROLYSis...