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65 Cards in this Set
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Accuracy
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how close a measurement is to the accepted value
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Agriculture
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produces plants and animals for food, fiber, and fuel
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annotate
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to add explanatory notes to a design
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Artifact
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any man-made object
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Biotechnology
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transforms living things into products or new forms of life
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Brainstorming
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a method of shared problems olving in which members of a group spontaneously share ideas
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CAD
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Computer Aided Design
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Caliper
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a tool to precisely measure inside diameter, thickness, depth, or step distance
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Center Line
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a line type that runs down the center of an object
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City Zone
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An area or district within a city set aside for a specific use.
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Commercial Zone
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An area of land set aside for for-profit businesses like office complexes, shopping malls, service stations, and restaurants.
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Communication
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giving or exchanging information
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Concentric Circles
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a circle within another circle where the center points of both merge
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Constraint
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guidelines that MUST be foolwed or rules that MUST NOT be broken
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Construction
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builds structures that support loads and protect us from the environment
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Cubit
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the distance from your elbow to the tip of your middle finger - ancient measurement
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Customary Measurement system
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AKA English system, inches, feet, yards, gallons, ounces, etc.
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Decision Matrix
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a tool for systematically ranking alternatives and making a decision according to a set of criteria
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Deliverables
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the end product that the engineer and client decide are appropriate for the design problem
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Depth
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the distance from front to back
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Design Brief
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a concise document to define and solve a problem
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Design elements
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line, shape/form, color, light/shadow, space and texture are the 6 integral design elements
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Design Process (definition)
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a systematic problem solving strategy
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Design Process (steps)
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define the problem, generate concepts, develop a solution, contruct and test a prototype, evaluate the solution, present the solution
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diameter
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a straight line passing from side to side through the center of a circle
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Dimension (verb)
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to add dimensions to a drawn object to show the size
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Dimension Line
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thin lines which may be broken along their length to provide space for numbers
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Engineering
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the branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures
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Environment
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the air, water, minerals, organisms and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism
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Ergonomics
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the study of how people interact with machines
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Functional
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designed to be practical and useful
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Height
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the measurement of an object from base to top
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Hidden Line
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a line type that represents an edge that is not directly visible in that view
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horizon line
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where parallel edges of an object converge in perspective drawings
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Horizontal
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a line parallel to the X axis
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Industrial zone
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An area of land set aside for factories and warehouses.
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Infrastructure
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A public system of services needed by industry, commercial, and residential zones such as power, water, transportation, communications, and schools.
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Innovation
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an adaptation to an existing object or idea
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Invention
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a new object or idea, has never been done before
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Isometric drawing
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a pictorial drawing that shows all three dimensions in one view.
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Land fill
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A site where waste material has been buried.
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Manufacturing
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changing natural or synthetic materials into usable products
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Municipality
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A town, city, or region that has its own local government.
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Nanotechnology
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manipulating materials on the atomic or molecular level
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Object LIne
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a heavy solid line used on a drawing to represent the outline of an object
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One-point perspective
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a method of drawing in which all the lines go to one point
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Orthographic drawing
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a drawing with views of the front, back and side, used to show the true size and shape of an object.
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Parallel lines
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lines that will never cross
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Perpendicular lines
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2 lines that form a 90 degree angle
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Precision
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how close together or repeatable the results are
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Process
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a systematic series of actions directed to some end
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Prototype
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a working model of a design idea
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Residential Zone
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An area of land set aside for housing.
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Scale
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a ratio of size used to make accurate models
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Science
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the study of the natural world
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SI Measurement system
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System International (AKA the Metric system)
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SI Prefixes (definitions)
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kilo=100,Hecto=100,Deka=10,Deci=1/10, Centi=1/100, milli=1/1000
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SI Units
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meters, liters, grams, seconds
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Technology
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applying math and science to designs
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Thumbnail Sketch
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a small drawing on paper used to describe an idea
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Transportation
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the movement of goods and people from one place to another
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Transportation systems
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a network of raods, streets, water, or rails that allows the vehicular movement of people and goods.
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Two-point perspective
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method of drawing in which lines go to one of two points - the most realistic way of drawing an object
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Vertical
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a line parallel to the Y axis
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Zoning density
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Designation of the ratio of building space to open space (eg., high-density residential includes high-rise apartment buildings).
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