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Increasing the production with more products (outputs) and fewer resources (Inputs).
What is Productivity?
100
The change of cell phones from generation to generation
What is Technological Evolution?
100
A device that started the information age
What is a Computer?
100
Nuclear energy from uranium
What is Non-renewable Energy?
100
Individualized, one-of-a-kind, tailored to meet the size, color, shape, style, and cost of the customer
What is Customized production?
200
Caused a rapid technological change during the industrial revolution
What is Steam Power?
200
A device used by the government to protect inventors and their inventions
What is a patent?
200
Insures proper function
What is Maintenance?
200
a ribbed metal attachment that disperses heat from a device
What is a Heat Sink?
200
Led to lower prices
What is Modern Manufacturing?
300
Activities that might result in new or improved products and processes.
What is Research and Development?
300
An area that tends to have more of an effect on society due to its ability to both solve and create new problems
What is Technology?
300
To keep products in working order
What is the Goal of Maintenance?
300
Liquid Crystal Display
What is LCD?
300
The underlying base or basic framework of a system
What is Infrastructure?
400
The Criteria and Constraints of a product or system and how affect the final design
What is Requirements?
400
Using a tennis racket to swat flies
What is Technology Transfer?
400
Making a design as effective as possible when considering the given criteria and constraints
What is optimization?
400
Type of circuit that only has one path for electrons to flow
What is a series circuit?
400
Type of bridge that has a single road bed span from point A to point B
What is Beam Bridge?
500
The improvement of an already made product
What is Innovation?
500
An ers where the use and production of stone tools occured
What is the Paleolithic Era
500
A model made to test a design during development
What is a Prototype?
500
the ratio of output force produced by a workign force applied to the effort
What is Mechanical Advantage?
500
Bridges that use cables and towers to transmit loads
What are Suspension Bridges?