An interacting group of items forming a unified whole.
What is a system?
100
Agricultural Age, Industrial Age, and Information Age.
What is the three technological ages?
100
Technology related to the design and building of structures.
What is construction?
100
A heavy solid line used on a drawing to represent the outline of an object.
What is an object line?
100
A system that is part of another, larger system.
What is a subsystem?
200
A system which can adjust to changing conditions through the use of a feedback loop which monitors output.
What is a closed-loop system?
200
The Age where people lived off farming the land.
What is the Agricultural Age?
200
In manufacturing, a working model of a proposed product.
What is a prototype?
200
Heavy unconnected line that represents an edge that is not entirely visible.
What is a hidden line?
200
The part of a closed-loop system that provides control or measurement monitoring, comparing, and adjusting output.
What is a feedback loop?
300
Used to monitor a systems output.
What is a sensor?
300
The Age where society was based on electronics and computers.
What is the Information Age?
300
products designed to have an enjoyable appearance.
What is aesthetics?
300
Representing a three-dimensional object in two dimensions using 3 different views (front, top, and right side)
What is an orthographic drawing?
300
Light lines extending between views of a 2D drawing used to align dimensions.
What is a projection line?
400
A system consisting of an input, process, and output that cannot adjust to changing conditions.
What is an open-loop system?
400
The Age where society was focused on machines and factories.
What is the Industrial Age?
400
Series of work stations at which individual steps in the assembly of a product are carried out as the product is moved along.
What is an assembly line?
400
A pictorial drawing that shows us two sides of an object that has been rotated thirty degrees.
What is an isometric drawing?
400
Representation of a proposed product or object that does not work.
What is modeling?
500
Made to specific specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into the assembly of the same type.
What is an interchangeable part?
500
The method of using our knowledge to solve practical problems. Solutions to these problems satisfy peoples wants and needs.
What is Technology?
500
Use of technology to mass produce things people want or need.
What is manufacturing?
500
Drawing of an object that is not true to size but that is in the correct proportions.
What is a scale drawing?
500
A non-motorized machine that changes that changes the direction of a force, there by providing mechanical advantage, include lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw.