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Technical Design And Engineering

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






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






4. The formal rules that guide the design process.






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Someone who starts a business.






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






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






23. Current flow in which electrons move in only one direction.






24. The passage of electric current through an electrolytic fluid for the purpose of separating molecules.






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






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






27. A resource that is entered into a system.






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






35. 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.






36. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






37. 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.'






38. The law that states that if the pressure of a gas increases - the volume decreases (provided that the temperature remains constant).


39. The basic framework of a system






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






50. 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.