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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The use of pressurized liquid or gasses to control and transmit power.






2. Energy in motion.






3. The formal rules that guide the design process.






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






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






6. Creating things through the process of planning.






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






8. The basic framework of a system






9. Someone who starts a business.






10. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. A popular movement.






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






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






30. 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.






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






32. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






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






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






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






36. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






37. 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.






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






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






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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