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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.






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






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






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






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






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


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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.'






31. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






32. The formal rules that guide the design process.






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






34. Creating things through the process of planning.






35. 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.






36. Someone who starts a business.






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






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. 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.






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






42. A resource that is entered into a system.






43. The superimposition of sine waves on electromagnetic carrier waves.






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






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