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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Someone who starts a business.






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






3. Creating things through the process of planning.






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. Stored energy or energy at rest.






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






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






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


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






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






14. The basic framework of a system






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






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






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






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






19. The formal rules that guide the design process.






20. An agreement that permits free trade among member nations. The decrease in trade barriers help manufacturers find larger markets for there product.






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






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.'






23. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






25. Energy in motion.






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






27. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






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






29. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






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.






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






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






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






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






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






37. A popular movement.






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






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






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.






41. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






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






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.






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. A resource that is entered into a system.






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






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






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






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