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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Energy in motion.






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






3. The formal rules that guide the design process.






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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.






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. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.






12. The capacity to do work or exert effort.






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






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






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






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






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






18. The basic framework of a system






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






20. A popular movement.






21. A resource that is entered into a system.






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






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






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






25. Current flow in which electrons reverse direction at regular intervals.






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






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






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






29. Stored energy or energy at rest.






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. Creating things through the process of planning.






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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