Technology
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| What is technology? | The practical application of science to commerce or industry. Generally takes the form of an artifact.
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| What is the role of an engineer? | A person who designs products, structures, or systems to improve peoples lives.
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| What is one of the seven keys of engineering? | People,Energy,Capital,Information,Tools,Machines(either of these) Materials Time
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| What was the main technological advance/discovery of the Stone Age? | The control of fire.
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| The steam engine was a technology that was invented in which age? | The Industrial Revolution.
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| What are two of the categories of technical effects? | Expected and Desired,Expected and Undesired, Unexpected but Desired,Unexpected and Undesired(either of these)
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| What age are we in currently? | 21st century; the modern era.
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| How does technology impact the world? | It makes some problems,or the way that life works,a bit easier, because technology is to benifit a person's wants or needs.
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| What are some engineering requirements? | Will identify skin lesions with a 90% accuracy;Should be able to measure within 1mm
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| What are the differences between wants and needs? | Needs are finite, wants are infinite.
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| In what age was the domestication of plants and animals initiated? | The Stone Age
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| What is smelting? | To fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained; to obtain or refine (metal) in this way.
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| What is the difference between engineering and science? | On a more philosophical level, scientists tend to explore the natural world and discover new knowledge about the universe and how it works. Engineers apply that knowledge to solve practical problems.
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| What are some of the constraints that you heard in the power point? | Economic, Environmental, Ethical and Legal, Health and Safety, Manufacturability, Political and Social – FDA, language?, Sustainability(either of these)
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| Do all Ethics standards have to be met?Why or why not? | Yes;because if not, then the designer/engineer could be breaking a code violation, law of government, or there can be a possible failure in the design. Eg: Bridge failures
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| What defines the engineering design process? | It is the process that an engineer follows in order to do his/her job.
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| What became the birthplace of civilization? | The Fertile Crescent
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| What does technology involve? | An artifact
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| Whati s the difference between an invention and an innovation? | One is a new way of doing something like an improvement; while the other is something totally new that has not benn created before.
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| True or false: Does technological progress promote scientific advancement? | True
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