6/12/2006 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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Engineering & science crossword puzzle
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1 Connects devices in series

8 Symbol for mercury

10 Mechanical engineering group, abbr.

11 Amplifier terminal

13 Coordinated Universal Time, abbr.

14 Indium Gallium Phosphor semiconductor, abbr.

15 A LP filter spec., abbr.

16 FCC Part 15 rules apply here, abbr.

17 State where Agilent has design centers, abbr.

18 Infrared

19 Minutes of Use

20 Akin to CE, EE, AE

21 Cooling device

22 1e-6 mA

23 Virtual Private Network

24 Cooling features on a heat sink

25 Electromagnetic Pulse, abbr.

27 Yard, abbr.

28 Voltage-current phase mnemonic

29 Type of electronic warfare defense, abbr.

31 Time Delay, abbr.

33 IC killer

35 Reliability measure, abbr.

36 Binary base

38 Metal parts engineer, abbr.

39 ___FET

40 Part of a FOR loop

41 Agilent's EE design software

42 Integrated Circuit

43 Infrared

44 Spark ___ overvoltage arrestor

45 Home state of Los Alamos lab, abbr.

46 Association of North American Radio Clubs

48 System On Chip

49 The positive electrode

50 Greek letter

51 Equalizer, abbr.

52 Name for a chemical process when two or more substances are combined

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1 Precipitate

2 Material testing organization, abbr.

3 Miniature RF connector

4 European equivalent to the U.L.

5 Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss

6 The "E" in SEO (think Internet)

7 S11, S21, etc.

9 Redundant current return path

12 Electron spin orientation

14 Charged particles

15 Indication of quality of received message

16 Electrical impedance or admittance

17 Constellation : The lesser dog

19 1e3 uV

21 Data storage format

24 Chemical symbol for iron

26 Substrates for mounting components, abbr.

30 300 kHz to 3 MHz

32 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing

34 Factor of ten

35 Microwave frequency IC, abbr.

37 Unix, Linux or Windows

40 Radio navigation system, abbr.

44 BASIC branching command

46 Army-Navy spec., abbr.

47 Government program to bring electricity to farms, abbr.

48 Semiconductor On Insulator, abbr.

50 Network department, abbr.

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