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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. Someone who starts a business.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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

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






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






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






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






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






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






17. The formal rules that guide the design process.






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






19. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






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






22. 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.






23. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






29. 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.'






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. The effect of a system's processes and/or output on the systems environment. this effect can be either positive - negative - or in some cases both.






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






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






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






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






49. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






50. Energy in motion.