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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. The combination of knowledge of science - mathematics - technology - and communication to solve technology problems.






2. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






3. The technology field focused on sending messages and other in formation using different means.






4. The long term storage mechanism of a computer. It holds the computer programs used for word processing - playing games - and other tasks.






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






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






7. The field of knowledge relating to materials as they exists on a molecular or atomic level.






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






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






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






11. A device that orbits the Earth and receives messages from one location and transmits them to another.






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






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






14. A resource that is entered into a system.






15. Creating things through the process of planning.






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






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






18. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.






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






20. The process of turning abstractions of thought into concrete ideas.






21. The process of creating the most effective and functional product or process while meeting all the criteria and constraints.






22. The basic framework of a system






23. 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.






24. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






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






26. The use of a computer system to produce technical drawings and/or design a product.






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






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






29. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






31. 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.






32. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






33. 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.






34. A production system in which products are made one at a time according to customer's specifications.






35. The superimposition of sine waves on electromagnetic carrier waves.






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






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






40. The formal rules that guide the design process.






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






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






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






44. The imitation - as closely as possible - of the real- life circumstances in which a solution is intended to be used.






45. A popular movement.






46. 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.






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






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






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


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