E.D.P
History of Technology
Energy & Power
Info & Com.
Misc.
100

iterative problem-solving method that produces solutions to meet human needs and wants.

What is the Engineering Design Process?

100
Involves electricity, automobiles, airplanes, radio, television, telephones, and rockets.

What is the industrial age?

100

The First Law of Thermodynamics.

Which law states that "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed but energy can flow from one form to another." ?

100

determining the objective of the project or the action.

What is input?

100

When a designer must make a choice between a positive or negative impact for a product.

What is a trade-off?

200

the desired elements and features of a product or system.

What is criteria?

200

The development of tools and materials was based on _______________.

What is technological know-how?

200

The energy that comes from resources such as water, wind, and solar.

What is renewable energy?


200

The result of the objective

What is output?

300

A simple way to chart your proposed solutions.

What is a Decision Matrix?

300

The development of a new/ useful process, tool, machine, etc.

What is invention?

300

The zeroth law

What law is "if each two systems is equal to a third, then the first two are also equal." ?

300

Confirmation that the objective was achieved, how the objective could be improved.

What is feedback?

400

Driven by profit, motive, and the market.

What is design?

400
The four categories that impact technological development

What are social, political, cultural, and economic?

400

A diagram that shows a type of energy that goes into a system and how energy is converted.

What is a Sankey Diagram?

400

Information and communication systems broken down?

What is decoder, storage, retrieval, destination?

500

A representation of the final solution that does not function.

What is a mock-up?

500

The nine distinct periods of time.

What is paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, bronze, iron, middle ages, renaissance, industrial, and information age?

500

The equation used for the first law of thermodynamics.

What is W = F X D?

500

An essential component of business and industry that is rapidly expanding.

What is information and communication?