What is representing a 3D object in two dimensions using 3 different views?
100
System
What is an interacting group of items forming a unified whole?
100
Technology
What is the method of using our knowledge to solve practical problems called? These solutions satisfy people's wants and needs.
100
Prototype
What is a working full-scale model of a proposed product?
100
Construction
What is technology related to the design and building of structures called?
200
Isometric drawing
What is a pictorial drawing that shows three sides of an object that has been rotated thirty degrees?
200
Subsystem
What is a system that's part of another larger system?
200
Agricultural Age
What is the age where people lived off the land? Many tools and discoveries had to do with growing crops. This era lasted in the 1700s.
200
Aesthetics
What are products designed to have an enjoyable appearance?
200
Interchangeable parts
What is made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type?
300
Scale Drawing
What is a drawing of an object that's not true size but is in the correct proportions?
300
Open loop system
What is a system consisting of an input, process and output that cannot adjust to changing conditions?
300
Industrial Age
What is the age where society moved to a focus on machines, factories, and industry? Populations in northern America, especially build large factories and large machines to do things people used to do by hand.
300
Ergonomics
What is how comfortable something is to use?
300
Invention
What is the creation of a product or introduction of a process for the first time?
400
CAD
What is a computer-aided drafting or computer-aided design?
400
Closed loop system
What is a system which can adjust to changing conditions through the use of a feedback loop which monitors out put
400
Assembly Line
What is a series of work stations at which individual steps in the assembly of a product are carried out as the product is moved along?
400
Manufacturing
What is the use of technology to mass produce things people want or need?
400
Innovation
What improves on or makes a significant contribution to an existing product, process or service?
500
Object line-a heavy solid line used on a drawing to represent the outline of an object
Projection line-light lines extending between views of a 2D drawing used to align dimensions
Hidden line-Heavy unconnected that represents an edge that isn to directly visible
What are object lines, projection lines and hidden lines?
500
Feedback (loop)
What is the part of a closed-loop system that provides control or measurement monitoring, comparing and adjusting output?
500
Information Age
What is the age from the 1950s through today in which inventions are based on electronics and computers?
500
Just-in-time manufacturing
What is producing production-line components, etc., as they are required, rather than holding large stocks?