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Technical Design And Engineering
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1. The judgement of the end result based upon given criteria.
POTENTIAL ENERGY
TREND
WORK
EVALUATION
2. Someone who starts a business.
ENTREPRENEUR
SIMPLE MACHINES
FLUID POWER
PROCESS
3. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.
NUCLEAR FISSION
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
ENERGY
ANALYSIS
4. The act of putting different things together to form a new product or idea.
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
SYNTHESIS
AMPLITUDE
ENTREPRENEUR
5. An agreement that permits free trade among member nations. The decrease in trade barriers help manufacturers find larger markets for there product.
MODULATION
IDENTITY THEFT
BOYLE'S LAW
NAFTA
6. A production system in which products are made one at a time according to customer's specifications.
SIMPLE MACHINES
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
MOTHERBOARD
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
7. The basic framework of a system
MODULATION
WORK
INFRASTRUCTURE
CRITERIA
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.
LOAD
FEEDBACK
SYNTHESIS
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
9. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
PRODUCTIVITY
INPUT
ENERGY
NANOTECHNOLOGY
10. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.
NUCLEAR FISSION
NAFTA
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
CRITERIA
11. The long term storage mechanism of a computer. It holds the computer programs used for word processing - playing games - and other tasks.
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
FREQUENCY
HARD DISK
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
12. Trade of products and services on a global scale.
MODULATION
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
ASSEMBLY LINE
GLOBAL MARKET
13. A circuit in which electricity flows along a single path to more than one device.
GLOBAL MARKET
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
SERIES CIRCUIT
SENSORS
14. The technology field focused on sending messages and other in formation using different means.
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
HARD DISK
SYNTHESIS
15. Heat generated within the Earth as the result of the decay of radioactive materials beneath the Earth's crust.
CONSTRAINTS
MODULATION
RAPID PROTOTYPING
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
16. The field of knowledge relating to materials as they exists on a molecular or atomic level.
NANOTECHNOLOGY
FEEDBACK
SERIES CIRCUIT
RAPID PROTOTYPING
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.
MODULATION
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
DESIGN
TEAM
19. The capacity to do work or exert effort.
DESIGN
ENERGY
AMPLITUDE
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
20. The combination of knowledge of science - mathematics - technology - and communication to solve technology problems.
IMPACTS
PRODUCTIVITY
ENGINEERING
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
21. The imitation - as closely as possible - of the real- life circumstances in which a solution is intended to be used.
ENTREPRENEUR
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
SIMULATION
CRITICAL THINKING
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.'
RAPID PROTOTYPING
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
PROCESS
SYNTHESIS
23. Studying the effects of a given technology to determine its impact.
OPTIMIZATION
SERIES CIRCUIT
CONSTRAINTS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
24. The use of 3D CAD drawings to create real models of a product within a sort of time.
RAPID PROTOTYPING
PROFIT
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
NUCLEAR FISSION
25. A circuit in which electricity flows along more than one path.
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
PRODUCTIVITY
PARALLEL CIRCUITS
NANOTECHNOLOGY
26. The comparison of the amount of goods produced (output) to the amount of resources (input) that produced them
PRODUCTIVITY
BOYLE'S LAW
NAFTA
ENTREPRENEUR
27. A wave created by electric and magnetic fields;it travels through the air like ripples in a pool of water.
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
TREND
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
SERIES CIRCUIT
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.
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
PROFIT
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
29. Creating things through the process of planning.
DESIGN
SIMPLE MACHINES
NUCLEAR FISSION
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
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.
HOLOGRAPHY
PROFIT
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
31. Current flow in which electrons move in only one direction.
CONSTRAINTS
DIRECT CURRENT (DC)
NANOTECHNOLOGY
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
32. A popular movement.
TREND
ENGINEERING
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
33. Restriction or limit placed on a product.
INFRASTRUCTURE
SYNTHESIS
SATELLITE
CONSTRAINTS
34. The use of simple machines to multiply the output force of a mechanical system.
ANALYSIS
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT(CPU)
MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
SATELLITE
35. A method of obtaining energy from waste products
BIO-CONVERSION
RECEIVERS
CIRCUIT
CUSTOM PRODUCTION
36. The use of computers in each stage of the design process.
DIGITAL WORK FLOW
HOLOGRAPHY
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
37. Current flow in which electrons reverse direction at regular intervals.
NANOTECHNOLOGY
PROFIT
ENERGY
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
38. In a computer - the primary circuit board to which all internal componnets are connected either directly or indirectly.
CRITICAL THINKING
MOTHERBOARD
ENGINEERING
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
39. The process of turning abstractions of thought into concrete ideas.
CRITICAL THINKING
SENSORS
BRAINSTORMING
FLUID POWER
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.
NAFTA
COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING (CAD)
POWER
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
41. A device that creates a mechanical advantage. Complex machines are based on 6 simple machines in various combinations.
POWER
OPTIMIZATION
TREND
SIMPLE MACHINES
42. The formal rules that guide the design process.
POWER
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
SERIES CIRCUIT
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
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.
DESIGN
AMPLITUDE
TREND
INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION
44. A group of parts that work together to accomplish a goal. The basic parts of a system are input - process - and output.
ANALYSIS
SYSTEM
BOYLE'S LAW
TEAM
45. The use of pressurized liquid or gasses to control and transmit power.
CRITICAL THINKING
ENTREPRENEUR
COMMUNICATION CHANNEL
FLUID 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.
AMPLITUDE
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
BRAINSTORMING
TEAM
47. The use of force to act on an object in order to move move the object in the same direction as the force.
BOYLE'S LAW
SYSTEM
FEEDBACK
WORK
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.
FEEDBACK
IDENTITY THEFT
PROCESS
SIMULATION
49. The use of lasers to record realistic images of three- dimensional objects.
FREQUENCY
HOLOGRAPHY
CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICE (CCD)
DESIGN
50. A device that orbits the Earth and receives messages from one location and transmits them to another.
MODULATION
SATELLITE
ENERGY
HARD DISK