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Technical Design And Engineering
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1. The passage of electric current through an electrolytic fluid for the purpose of separating molecules.
ELECTROLYSis...
PRODUCTIVITY
SIMPLE MACHINES
SYNTHESIS
2. A series of operations that includes all of the activities that must be performed in order for the system to yield the expected result.
SIMULATION
SERIES CIRCUIT
PROCESS
ANALYSIS
3. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
ENERGY
TECHNOLOGY
TEAM
SERIES CIRCUIT
4. 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.'
ENERGY
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
IMPACTS
CONSTRAINTS
5. A unit that collects waves and decodes information contained within those waves.
CRITICAL THINKING
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
RECEIVERS
6. The use of force to act on an object in order to move move the object in the same direction as the force.
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
WORK
LOAD
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
7. The technology field focused on sending messages and other in formation using different means.
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
TECHNOLOGY
8. The process of creating the most effective and functional product or process while meeting all the criteria and constraints.
MOTHERBOARD
OPTIMIZATION
AMPLITUDE
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
9. The use of pressurized liquid or gasses to control and transmit power.
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
MOTHERBOARD
INFRASTRUCTURE
FLUID POWER
10. The use of a computer system to produce technical drawings and/or design a product.
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
FEEDBACK
IDENTITY THEFT
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
11. A resource that is entered into a system.
CRITICAL THINKING
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
SENSORS
INPUT
12. 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.
IMPACTS
FREQUENCY
ENTREPRENEUR
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
13. Creating things through the process of planning.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
FEEDBACK
DESIGN
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
14. The formal rules that guide the design process.
NUCLEAR FISSION
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
SIMULATION
ENTREPRENEUR
15. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.
SYNTHESIS
NUCLEAR FISSION
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
16. Restriction or limit placed on a product.
BOYLE'S LAW
ENERGY
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
CONSTRAINTS
17. The imitation - as closely as possible - of the real- life circumstances in which a solution is intended to be used.
SIMULATION
TECHNOLOGY
KINETIC ENERGY
MODULATION
18. The unlawful acquisition of some one's personal information for use without their consent.
TECHNOLOGY
MOTHERBOARD
IDENTITY THEFT
POWER
19. Processes and knowledge that can be used to extend human abilities as well as satisfy human needs and wants.
SIMULATION
CONSTRAINTS
HOLOGRAPHY
TECHNOLOGY
20. A device that orbits the Earth and receives messages from one location and transmits them to another.
FEEDBACK
SATELLITE
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
MOTHERBOARD
21. 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.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
ANALYSIS
BRAINSTORMING
TEAM
22. Stored energy or energy at rest.
POTENTIAL ENERGY
MOTHERBOARD
ANALYSIS
POWER
23. A popular movement.
TREND
BRAINSTORMING
EVALUATION
TECHNOLOGY
24. The knowledge - tools - machines - skills - and other things that people make and do to send and receive information.
INPUT
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
NANOTECHNOLOGY
25. Studying the effects of a given technology to determine its impact.
SATELLITE
FLUID POWER
SIMULATION
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
26. Current flow in which electrons move in only one direction.
HARD DISK
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
KINETIC ENERGY
TEAM
27. Energy in motion.
PROFIT
ENGINEERING
KINETIC ENERGY
ELECTROLYSis...
28. The act of breaking a particular subject into different parts to achieve clarity of understanding.
ELECTROLYSis...
PROFIT
ANALYSIS
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
29. Heat generated within the Earth as the result of the decay of radioactive materials beneath the Earth's crust.
PROCESS
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
WORK
30. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.
CIRCUIT
CRITERIA
FEEDBACK
PRODUCTIVITY
31. 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.
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
INPUT
PROCESS
32. The design of equipment and environments to promote human health - safety - and well- being; sometimes referred to as ergonomics.
RAPID PROTOTYPING
BIO-CONVERSION
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
HARD DISK
33. A circuit in which electricity flows along more than one path.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
34. The money a business makes after all expenses have been paid
ELECTROLYSis...
SYNTHESIS
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
PROFIT
35. In a computer - the primary circuit board to which all internal componnets are connected either directly or indirectly.
LOAD
TECHNOLOGY
MOTHERBOARD
ELECTROLYSis...
36. The use of simple machines to multiply the output force of a mechanical system.
ASSEMBLY LINE
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
ELECTROLYSis...
37. The act of putting different things together to form a new product or idea.
SYNTHESIS
HARD DISK
PROFIT
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
38. The long term storage mechanism of a computer. It holds the computer programs used for word processing - playing games - and other tasks.
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
INPUT
HARD DISK
FREQUENCY
39. The combination of knowledge of science - mathematics - technology - and communication to solve technology problems.
SENSORS
RECEIVERS
ENGINEERING
MOTHERBOARD
40. 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.
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
FEEDBACK
TREND
41. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
ENERGY
PRODUCTIVITY
RAPID PROTOTYPING
NAFTA
42. Current flow in which electrons reverse direction at regular intervals.
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
MODULATION
NAFTA
ENERGY
43. A wave created by electric and magnetic fields;it travels through the air like ripples in a pool of water.
SIMPLE MACHINES
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
SATELLITE
44. A group of parts that work together to accomplish a goal. The basic parts of a system are input - process - and output.
RECEIVERS
SYSTEM
PROFIT
BOYLE'S LAW
45. The judgement of the end result based upon given criteria.
EVALUATION
POWER
NUCLEAR FISSION
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
46. A method of obtaining energy from waste products
SENSORS
BIO-CONVERSION
IMPACTS
RECEIVERS
47. A language - used to write computer programs - that can easily be translated into machine language.
BOYLE'S LAW
AMPLITUDE
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
SYNTHESIS
48. The field of knowledge relating to materials as they exists on a molecular or atomic level.
HOLOGRAPHY
SYNTHESIS
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
NANOTECHNOLOGY
49. The comparison of the amount of goods produced (output) to the amount of resources (input) that produced them
BOYLE'S LAW
SATELLITE
FLUID POWER
PRODUCTIVITY
50. The use of 3D CAD drawings to create real models of a product within a sort of time.
CONSTRAINTS
FLUID POWER
RAPID PROTOTYPING
HOLOGRAPHY