Electro-Mechanical Vocabulary
This common hand tool is used to provide grip and mechanical advantage in applying torque to turn objects, such as nuts and bolts.
What is a wrench? (o spanner)
This software, developed by Autodesk, is widely used for creating 3D models and documenting building designs.
What is Revit?
Alongside BYD, this company is currently one of the largest global manufacturers of electric vehicles.
What is Tesla?
The private aerospace company responsible for developing the Starship spacecraft and the Super Heavy rocket.
What is SpaceX?
A period of time working from a location other than the traditional corporate office.
What is remote work? (o telecommuting)
A rotating electrical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.
What is an electric motor?
The acronym MEP stands for Mechanical, Electrical, and this third building discipline.
What is Plumbing?
This component in an electric vehicle is responsible for storing the electrical energy required to power the motor.
What is the battery? (o battery pack)
The aerodynamic force generated by the engines that pushes a rocket upward, overcoming the force of gravity.
What is thrust?
The written record or summary of everything that was discussed and decided during a professional meeting.
What are meeting minutes?
In pneumatic and hydraulic systems, this mechanical device regulates, directs, or controls the flow of a fluid.
What is a valve?
This visual programming tool allows users to write scripts and automate repetitive workflows directly inside Revit.
What is Dynamo?
A financial metric comparing a company’s sales or production volume in the current period to the exact same period in the previous year.
What is Year-over-Year (YoY)?
The specific name of the reusable, staged-combustion rocket engine series designed to power the Starship launch system.
What is the Raptor engine? (o Raptor v3)
A legal contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or information that the parties wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish to restrict access to.
What is a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)?
This specific type of gear has teeth that are cut at an angle to the face of the gear, allowing for smoother and quieter operation.
What is a helical gear?
The 3D digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility, often used as a shared knowledge resource for information about a building.
What is BIM? (Building Information Modeling)
In artificial intelligence, this specific architecture (MoE) activates only a subset of neural networks for each task to increase efficiency and save computation.
What is Mixture of Experts?
The critical process of transferring cryogenic liquid propellant from one spacecraft to another while in orbit.
What is orbital refueling?
The process of a professional transitioning their career or moving to work in an international market, such as the US or Europe.
What is relocation? (o international placement)
The dimensionless ratio of useful work output to the total energy input in a mechanical system.
What is mechanical efficiency?
The automated process of detecting when two different building elements (like a pipe and a structural beam) intersect or overlap in the 3D model.
What is clash detection? (o a clash)
The financial metric used to measure a corporation's net income or financial gain calculated over a three-month period.
What is quarterly profit? (o quarterly earnings)
The maximum weight of cargo, equipment, or passengers that a launch vehicle is capable of carrying into space.
What is payload capacity?
The phase of project management where a system or building is tested and verified to ensure it operates according to the design intent and operational requirements.
What is commissioning?