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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : 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.






2. Someone who starts a business.






3. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






4. The act of putting different things together to form a new product or idea.






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






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






7. The basic framework of a system






8. 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.






9. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






19. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






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






22. 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.'






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. Creating things through the process of planning.






30. 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.






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






32. A popular movement.






33. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






34. The use of simple machines to multiply the output force of a mechanical system.






35. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. A device that creates a mechanical advantage. Complex machines are based on 6 simple machines in various combinations.






42. The formal rules that guide the design process.






43. 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.






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. The use of lasers to record realistic images of three- dimensional objects.






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