Random Tech Terms
Scale Drawing
Time Zones
Old Quiz Questions
Cool Model Rocket
100
A system that is part of another larger system.
What is a Subsystem?
100
Drawing of an object that is not true size,but that is in the correct proportions.
What is Scale Drawing?
100
Time where the Information Age started.
What is the 1950's?
100
Working full-scaled model.
What is a prototype?
100
An interacting group of items forming a unified whole.
What is a system?
200
Method of using our knowledge to solve practical problems.
What is Technology?
200
Heavy unconnected line that represent an edge flat is not directly usable.
What is a Hidden Line?
200
Agricultural Age.
What is the first of the time zones?
200
Closed and Open loop systems.
What are 2 types of rocket systems?
200
The desired result of a system.
What is an Input?
300
Technology related to the design and building of structure.
What is Construction?
300
Lines extending between views of a 2d drawing used to align dimensions.
What is a Projection line?
300
Period from the 50's through today in which inventions are based on electronics and computer.
What is the Information Age?
300
Sensor.
What Monitors a system's output?
300
A system consisting of an input, process and output that cannot adjust to changing condition.
What is an Open loop system?
400
Representation of a proposed object or product that does not work.
What is modeling?
400
A heavy solid line used on a drawing to represent the out line of an object.
What is an Object line?
400
People lived off the land. Many tools and discoveries had to do with growing crops.
What is Agricultural Age?
400
Open loop system.
What is a Model rocket an example of?
400
Hitting a homerun (Landing on the Shaker High School roof).
What is the for a model rocket to land.
500
Producing production line components,etc, as they are required, rather than hiding large stocks.
What is Just-in-time Manufacturing?
500
Representing a three-dimensional object in 2 dimensional using 3 different views.
What is an Orthographic drawing?
500
Society moved to a focus on machines, factories and industry.
What is the Industrial Age?
500
The plow.
What is a significant invention in the Agricultural Age?
500
A system that uses feedback to affect the process.
What best describes a closed loop system?