GEAS Terms and Definitions Part 1

MANAGER’S TRAINING
in basket, management games, case studies

DELEGATES OF AUTHORITY
manager is able to give his subordinates the authority of decision making

WHEN RECRUITING MANAGERS
when recruiting mgrs, the engr mgr will rely on his currents employees, recruitment agencies and competitors.

DECISION MAKING
heart of the manager’s function

VISTIBULE SCHOOL
a training wherein the trainee is put in a situation exactly similar as that of the work place

BAYES CRITERION
when a manager is able to think of the probabilities that may occur and uses probability for decision making

QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION
steps in solving a problem

EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
not within the organization

INTERNAL ENVIRONMNET
organizational activities within the company

DISSIPATIVE FORCE
non concurrent forces


TRANSLATIONAL EQUILIBRIUM
 when the sum of external forces acting on a body is zero

ROTATIONAL EQUILIBRIUM
when the sum of the net torque is zero

CONSERVATION OF LINEAR MOMENTUM
when the sum of external forces acting on a body is zero, then its linear momentum is constant

SI UNIT OF MOMENTUM                                         
kg-m/s

SI UNIT OF IMPULSE
N-s


HEAT     
 the transit of energy between to masses due to their difference in temperature

HEAT CAPACITY
heat needed to raise a unit mass of body to 1o  in the temperature scale

SPECIFIC HEAT
heat capacity of a material over that of water

ratio of the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of a substance to 1o  to the heat required to raise the same mass of water to 1o

LATENT EFFECTS
heat effects accompanying changes in state with constant pressure

1st  LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
conservation of energy

2ND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
the conversion of heat to work is limited by the temperature where the conversion is taking place

SYSTEM
any quantity bounded and under consideration

PROCESS
any changes that a system undergoes

CYCLE
process wherein the system goes back to its original state

INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
there is no interchange of matter between system and environment

EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
there is a interchange of matter between system and environment

ENVIRONMENT
anything external to the system

CONDUCTION
transfer of energy from an energetic particle to a less energetic particle

CONVECTION
transfer of energy between a solid surface and a fluid in motion

RADIATION
transfer of energy though emission of electromagnetic waves

COEFFICIENT OF RESTITUTION
ratio of the velocity after collision to the velocity before collision

ELASTIC COLLISION
has a coefficient of restitution of 1

INELASTIC COLLISION
there is a lost of kinetic energy

MAXIMUM INELASTIC COLLISION
- coefficient of restitution is 0
- maximum kinetic energy is lost

ALUMINUM           
most abundant metal

VOLUME OF 1 POUND MOL OF ANY PERFECT GAS
359 FT3

POUD MOL
mass in pounds equal to the molecular weight

AVOGADRO’S PRINCIPLE
1 mol of any perfect gas contains the same number of molecules

VAN DER WAALS EQUATION OF STATE
modification of the ideal gas law

VAN DER WAALS BONDING
bonding that occurred due to the formation of molecules

ELECTROSTATIC BONDING
bonding between positive and negative charges

METALLIC BONDING
interaction of electron gas and ionic lattice

IDEAL MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE
ratio of the input distance to the output distance

MECHANICAL ENERGY
due to a rotary motion

·         The mass of the neutron is approximately 1839 times greater than electrons
·         The mass of the proton is approximately 1836 times greater than electrons
·         The mass of an electron in grams: 9.107 x 10-28
·         The mass of a proton in grams: 1.672 x 10-24
·         The mass of a neutron in grams: 1.675 x 10-24
·         The charge of an electron: -1.601 x 10-19
·         The charge of a proton: 1.601 x 10-19

ATOM    
building block of engineering material

ELEMENT
a pure substance that cannot be broken down by chemical means to a simpler substance

VALENCE ELECTRONS
determines the ability of atoms to combine with other atoms

1 AMU
nominal mass of a proton

COVALENT BONDING
bonding that refers to the sharing of electrons

·         Polymer comes from the Greek word words ‘poly’ meaning ‘many’ and ‘meros’ meaning part

HARDNESS
refers to resistance to plastic deformation


10mm BALL
penetrates used in the Brinell hardness test


ACIDS
pH of 1 to 6

pH
positive hydrogen ion

SECANT MODULUS
gives the average ratio of stress to strain for materials operating in the nonlinear region in the stress-strain diagram

DUCTILITY
ratio of the ultimate failure strain to the yielding strain
DIFFUSER
increases the pressure by slowing the substance

HEAT EXCHANGER
a device wherein 2 fluid streams exchange heat but do not mix

AMORPHOUS
solid material wherein its atoms or ions are randomly placed

PERIOD
the time taken by a body in uniform circular motion to travel an orbit

CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION
square of the velocity / radius

10-15 TO 10-16
diameter of the nucleus

Maslow's Needs Hierarchy Theory - five needs namely: physiological, security, social, esteem, and self-actualization

Expectancy Theory - motivation model based on the assumption than an individual will work on his perception of the possibility of his expectation to happen.

Legitimate Power - power of a person occupying a high position over those with lower position.

Free-rein Leadership - style of leadership when your unit is manned by professionals.

has inadequate control - if there's an unexplainable decline in the revenue and profit, the engineer manager ___.


Feedback Control - control when the engineer manager gathered information about a completed activity (forgot the rest)

Extrinsic Reward - reward given to an employee like money, benefits, promotions, recognitions, status and praise.

Extrinsic or Intrinsic - a reward can either be ___.

Herzberg Two-Factor Theory - "a satisfied employee is motivated to work harder and a issatisfied employee is not self-motivated" (employee nga ba yung term?)

Aptitude Test - psychological test to measure the person's capaciy or potential ability to learn.

Functional Authority - authority given to budget officer of an organization.

Functional Organization - organization structure effective for small firm or single-business firm.

Intermediate Planning - process of determining the contribution( ?) that a subunit can make with a resource.

actual mechanical advantage - (refers to machines) ratio of the output force exerted to the input force that is furnished to it.

zero - work done for the close, reversible, isentropic(? ) system.

one - compressibility factor of an ideal gas.

density - ratio of mass to volume

weight density - weight of substance per unit volume

relative density - aka specific gravity

specific gravity - density of material relative to that of water and is a pure number.

elastic limit - max stress applied to an object without being permanently deformed.

shear modulus - ___ of a material is the measure of its rigidity.

ductility - metal's ability of being permanently deformed.

buck(?) modulus - elasticity that applied to liquid.

length of wire - stress of wire supporting a load does not depend on this.

protons & neutrons - aka nucleons.

isotopes - same atomic number but different atomic weights.

Gold - 3rd best conductor.

Fluorine - most electronegative element.

Nichrome - least conductor of electricity.

heat of vaporization - (at boiling point) energy needed to turn liquid to vapor.

2260 kJ/kg - heat of vaporization of water.

sublimation - (direct) convert gas to solid and vice versa.

thermal conductivity - rate of flow of heat per unit time.

faster heat transfer - the higher the thermal conductivity, the ___.

thermal resistance - ratio between thickness of material to its thermal conductivity.

isobaric - system with constant pressure.

isothermal - system with constant temperature.

carnot engine - cylinder with ideal(?) gas inside and a movable piston at one end.

isothermal and adiabatic processes - carnot engine uses ___.

heat of combustion - energy liberated when 1kg or 1 cu.m. of substance(?) is completely burned.

heat engine - converts heat to mechanical energy.
100% - max amount of mechanical energy that can be converted to heat.

depends on the intake and exhaust temperature - max amount of heat that can be converted to mechanical energy.

isobaric compression - (forgot, sorry)

all are radioactive -
most notable property of actinides.

same as - number of shells with electrons is ___ to the element's period. (something like this)

smaller than - cation is ___ to its parent atom.

larger than - anion is ___ to its parent atom.

metal - aka electropositive.

4 valence electrons - metalloids has ___.

alloy - metal plus nonmetal

Eureka - alloy that has (almost) constant resistance at all temperatures.

Zinc
- commonly added to copper. (something like this)

5 years - to be a board examiner... must be a citizen and living in the Philippines for at least ___ (consecutive) .

10 years - to be a board examiner... must be a practicing ece at least ___ (continuous) .

ICT - stands for Information and Communication Technology.

Greenhouse Effect - warming of the earth not from direct sunlight. (forgot the rest)

Hund's Rule - "for a set of equal energy orbitals, each orbital is occupied by one electron before any orbital is occupied by two electron." (something like this)

Einstein Theory - matter can be converted to energy and vice versa. (something like this)

enthalpy - total useful energy.

crystalline - position of atom/ion is known and has a repetitive structure.

joule - mechanical equivalent of heat.

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