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Technical Design And Engineering

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






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






3. The formal rules that guide the design process.






4. Stored energy or energy at rest.






5. 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.






6. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






7. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






22. The basic framework of a system






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






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






25. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. A popular movement.






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






38. Energy in motion.






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






46. 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.






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






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






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






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