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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. The process of creating the most effective and functional product or process while meeting all the criteria and constraints.






2. 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.






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






4. The unlawful acquisition of some one's personal information for use without their consent.






5. Someone who starts a business.






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. A circuit in which electricity flows along a single path to more than one device.






11. Current flow in which electrons move in only one direction.






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






15. A device capable of detecting (sensing) changes in its environment; light and movement are examples.






16. An agreement that permits free trade among member nations. The decrease in trade barriers help manufacturers find larger markets for there product.






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






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






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






20. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






21. 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.






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






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






24. A popular movement.






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






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






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






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






29. The use of computers in each stage of the design process.






30. A circuit in which electricity flows along more than one path.






31. Creating things through the process of planning.






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






33. The combination of knowledge of science - mathematics - technology - and communication to solve technology problems.






34. A resource that is entered into a system.






35. A wave created by electric and magnetic fields;it travels through the air like ripples in a pool of water.






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






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






38. The use of 3D CAD drawings to create real models of a product within a sort of time.






39. The judgement of the end result based upon given criteria.






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






41. 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.'






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






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


44. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






46. Stored energy or energy at rest.






47. Energy in motion.






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






49. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






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