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






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






3. Energy in motion.






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






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






6. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






7. The formal rules that guide the design process.






8. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






15. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. A resource that is entered into a system.






25. Creating things through the process of planning.






26. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






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






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






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. The basic framework of a system






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. 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.'






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






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






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






48. Someone who starts a business.






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






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