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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. The formal rules that guide the design process.






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






3. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






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






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






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






7. Creating things through the process of planning.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. A resource that is entered into a system.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






33. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






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






39. A popular movement.






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






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






42. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






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






44. Someone who starts a business.






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.'






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