Question | Answer |
Technology | The use of accumulated knowledge to process resources to meet human needs and wants. |
Technological System | An orderly way of achieving a goal; designed to produce a desired result. |
Invention | The process of designing new products. |
Computer Aided Drafting | The process of using a computer to create a drafted documents. |
World Wide Web | A system of informational pages linked together located on computers around the world. |
Modem | An electronic device that sends and receives information over the telephone lines or cable. |
Search Engines | Programs or Web sites that enable users to search for information on the internet. |
Maglev Train | High-speed ground transportation vehicles which are suspended, guided, and propelled along a special guideway by magnetic forces. |
Photovoltaic Cell | Absorbs sunlight and converts the Sun's radiation into electricity or heat. |
Human Factors Engineering | The application of knowledge relating top people and thier actions and environments; improving the link between humans, machines, devices, and products. |
What are advantages of email over snail mail? | Speed, custom distribution, storage, privacy |
Design | Gather information, develop alternative solutions, select the best solution, implement the solution, evaluate the solution |
Name the components of a technological system? | input, process, output, feedback |
resources | All the things you need to produce a product, provide a service, or solve a problem |
Internet | Links together thousands of computer networks around the world that can all communicate with each other |
links | when clicked take you to other web pages |
ergonomics | The study of designing equipment and devices that fit the human body, its movement, and its thinking patterns |
inexhaustible energy | unlimited energy supplies that cannot be used up, such as energy of the Sun, wind, and water. |
Three primary functions basic to magnetic levitation technology. | levitation, propulsion, guidance |