Computer Aided Drafting - Answers CAD
Plot Plan - Answers Diagram showing arrangement of rooms and furniture at a set scale.
Elevation Plan - Answers Diagram showing the external face of a building showing height at a set
scale.
Foundation Plan - Answers Diagram showing the plane view of a structure at a set scale.
Specifications Sheet - Answers A document describing the specifications of a product or property.
Brainstorm - Answers A group technique for solving problems, generating ideas, stimulating creative
thinking, etc.
Client - Answers A person using the services of a professional person or organization.
Creativity - Answers The ability to make or bring a new concept or idea into existence.
Criteria - Answers A means of judging. A standard, rule, or test by which something can be judged.
Constraint - Answers A limit to a design process.
Design - Answers An iterative decision-making process that produces plans by which resources are
converted into products or systems that meet human needs and wants or solve problems; a plan; a
decorative pattern.
Design Brief - Answers A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria, and its
constraints. Encourage thinking of all aspects of a problem before attempting a solution.
Design Process - Answers A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used
to develop many possible solutions to solve a problem or satisfy human needs and wants and to
narrow down the possible solutions to one final choice.
Design Statement - Answers A part of a design brief that challenges the designer, describes what a
design solution should do without describing how to solve the problem, and identifies the degree to
which the solution must be executed.
Designer - Answers A person who designs any any of a variety of things.
Engineer - Answers A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to
solve practical problems.
Engineering Notebook - Answers A book in which an engineer will formally document, chronological
order, all of his/her work that is associated with a specific design.
Innovation - Answers An improvement of an existing technological product.
Invention - Answers A new product, system, or process that has never existed before; created by
study and experimentation.
Iterative - Answers A process that repeats a series of steps over and over until the desired outcome is
obtained.
Valid - Answers Well-founded on evidence and corresponds accurately to the real world.
Open-Looped - Answers A system that has to have input each time the system is used. Does not have
feedback (Input -> Process -> Output -> Input).
Feedback - Answers Fourth step of a system; responses that we get from a system.
Closed-Looped - Answers A system that has feedback (Input -> Process -> Output -> Feedback).
Process - Answers The algorithm in which input goes through.
Output - Answers The result of the output that the input goes through.
Subsystem - Answers Smaller systems within a larger system.
What are some important resources for engineering and technology? - Answers People, energy,
money, information, tools, machines, materials, and time.
System - Answers A set or group of parts that all work together; all of them include input, a process,
and an output.
International Standards Organization - Answers ISO
American National Standards Standards Institute - Answers ANSI
Drawing to Scale - Answers When objects are drawn at a reduced or enlarged size.
Multiview Drawing - Answers Include a Top view, a Side view, and a Right view (includes orthographic
projections).
Third Angle Projection - Answers The system in which the top view of a drawing is placed above the
front view.
CAD - Answers The use of a computer to assist in the process of designing a part, circuit, building, etc.
Fabricate - Answers Construct or manufacture an industrial product.
Mockup - Answers A model devised to expose its parts for study, training, or testing.