What is an interacting group of items forming a unified whole?
100
technology
What is a method of using our knowledge to solve practical problems? Solutions to these problems satisfy peoples wants and needs. These houses are heated with the newest solar technology.
100
innovation
What is it called when you improve something or make a significant contribution to an existing product?
100
object line
What is a heavy solid line used on a drawing to represent the outline of an object
100
hidden line
What is a heavy unconnected line that represents an edge that is not directly visible? (--------)
200
subsystem
What is a system that is part of another, larger system?
200
Agricultural Age
What is the age in which people lived off the land? Many tools and discoveries had to go with growing crops. This era lasted in the 1700s.
200
just-in-time manufacturing
What is it called when someone produces production-line components, etc., as they are required, rather than holding large stocks?
200
projection lines
What are light lines extending between views of a 2D drawing used to align dimensions?
200
simple machine
What is a non-motorized machine that changes direction of a force, thereby providing mechanical advantage? Includes lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw
300
open loop system
What is a system consisting of an input, process and output that cannot adjust to changing conditions (example: alarm clocks, model rockets)?
300
Industrial Age
What is the age in which society moved to a focus on machines, factories, and industry? Populations in Northern America, especially, built large factories and large machines to do things people used to do by hand.
300
construction
What is technology related to the design and building of structures?
300
scale drawing
What is a drawing of an object that is not true size but that is in the correct proportion?
300
modeling
What is a representation of a proposed object or product that does not work (design sketch, technical drawing, computer simulation)?
400
process
What is the action part of a system where resources are combined to produce an output in response to a command input?
400
Information Age
What is the period from the 1950s through today in which inventions are based on electronics and computers?
400
manufacturing
What is the use of technology to mass produce things people want or need?
400
orthographic
What is something that represents a three-dimensional object in two dimensions using 3 different views- front/top/right side?
400
constraints
What are limits imposed on a design solution?
500
closed loop system
What a system which can adjust to changing conditions through the use of a feedback loop which monitors output
500
invention
What is the creation of a product of introduction of a process for the first time?
500
prototype
What is a working model of a proposed product in manufacturing?
500
isometric drawing
What is a pictoral drawing that shows three sides of an object that has been rotated 30 degrees
500
feedback
What is the part of a closed-loop system that provides control or measurement monitoring, comparing, and adjusting combat?