Electricity
This unit of electric current in the meter-kilogram-second system of units. Referred to as amp and symbolized as A.
Ampere
A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve a problem
Design Process
The stress required to fracture a material whether by compression, tension, or shear
Breaking Stress
Categorical data graph
Bar Chart
This is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train that moves under a car that drives under an airplane
Boston University Bridge
A type of system that uses circulating pumps and fans to collect and distribute heat
Active Solar Energy Collection
A person who designs any of a variety of things. This usually implies the task of creating drawings or in some way using visual cues to organize work.
Designer
The ratio of actual strength to required strength
Factor of Safety
Amount of difference between a value and the mean
Deviation
Recently, most computers have developed faster USBs. What does USB stand for
Universal Serial Bus
The process in which an electric current is used to produce a chemical reaction, such as the decomposition of water
Electrolysis
A sketch that shows an object's height, width, and depth in a single view
Pictorial Sketch
A measure of how easily a material can be twisted
Shear Stress
A form of graph which represents percentage values as segments of a circle
Pie Chart
This term refers to software (or anything else) that will work on more than one platform (type of computer)
Cross Platform
The law that if two bodies are in thermal equilibrium with a third body then the first two bodies are in thermal equilibrium with each other
Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria, and its constraints
Design Brief
Sometimes referred to as tensile strength; determined by measuring the maximum load a material specimen can carry when in the shape of a rectangular bar or cylindrical can
Ultimate Stress
SPC is a method of monitoring, controlling, and ideally improving a process through statistical analysis. Its four basic steps include measuring the process, eliminating variances in the process to make it consistent, monitoring the process, and improving the process to its best target value
Statistical Process Control
Maverick, along with Snow Leopard and Lion are examples of_____.
Operating systems
A law that states all natural processes proceed in a preferred direction
Second Law of Thermodynamics
A type of 3D CAD modeling that represents the volume of an object, not just its lines and surfaces
Solid Modeling
A force with its resultant passing through the centroid of a particular section and being perpendicular to the plane of the section. A force in a direction parallel to the long axis of the structure
Axial Stress
A flowchart style diagram that can be used to break down any system, natural, social, or technological, into it's different parts
Universal System Model
What does Yahoo stand for?
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle