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Technology VS Technology VS ScienceScience

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NECESSITY = THE MOTHER OF INVENTIONNECESSITY = THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

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Technology Defined…

• Technology = Doing

• Science=Understanding

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SScience vs. TTechnology

• SSciencecience deals with the natural world, the understandingunderstanding of it– Geology, biology, botany

• TTechnologyechnology deals with the human-made world, the doingdoing of it– Manufacturing, constructing,

communicating

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TTechnology TThroughout HHistory• The Stone Age• The Bronze Age• The Iron Age• The Industrial Revolution• The 20th Century

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DDefinition of TTechnological SSystems

• Inputs• Processes• Outputs• Feedback

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Inputs and Processes

• Inputs– People– Natural Resources– Capital– Finance– Knowledge– Energy

• Processes– Production– Management

– These are united and work together to have desired outputs.

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OOutputs and FFeedback

• Outputs – the result of the system

• Outputs of Technological Systems– Outputs for the designed system– Other outputs such as scrap, waste, and pollution

• Feedback – adjustments made to the processes to improve the outputs

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Goals – Reason for the Systems

• The goals of technology– Meeting human needs– Profit – companies use the

systems for which owners may be rewarded

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Types of Technological Systems

• Manufacturing Systems– Custom– Intermittent & Batch– Continuous– Flexible

• Communications Systems– People to People– People to Machine– Machine to People– Machine to Machine

• Construction Systems- Planning- Constructing- Servicing

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TTransportation SSystems• Vehicular Systems• Propulsion Systems• Transmission of Power• Guidance Systems• Control Systems

– Braking Systems– Power to move vehicles– Directional Controls– Miscellaneous controls

• Measurement Devices

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TThe he DDesign esign PProcess rocess II

• The Problem– Beginning design when

there is a need/solution– i.e. Pathway for a person

on a wheelchair

• The Design Relief– Describes what needs to

be designed– Must be specific!

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TThe he DDesign esign PProcess rocess IIII

• Investigation– Function– Appearance– Materials– Construction– Safety

• Developing Alternatives• Choosing a Solution

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TThe he DDesign esign PProcess rocess IIIIII

• Models & Prototypes– Used by architects– Benefits – better communicated

• Testing & Evaluating– Does it work?– Does it meet the design brief?– Will modifications improve the

solution?

• Manufacturing

HYDE, IDA HENRIETTA1857 - 1945

An American physiologist who invented the micro-electrode in the 1930's

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What is YOUR

most can’t-live-without technology

?

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WWhat CCounts AAs TTechnology?• Objects - tools, machines, computers• Knowledge - computer savvies• Activities - procedures,people’s abilities• Process - has a start and an end• Sociotechnical Systems - manufacture and use of

objects involving people and other objects in combination

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NNature of TTechnology• Related to science

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NNature of TTechnology, contd.• It involves design

– Design the center of technology

– Design process begins with perception of need, and continues with formulation of a specification, and ends with evaluation of solution

• It involves making– Motivating factor behind

technology is to fulfill a need

Rozsa Peter

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NNature of TTechnology, contd. II• It is multi-dimensional

– Technology is performing a multitude of functions

– Examples:  working with others, operating within budgets, persuading decision makers, communicating to clients and working to deadlines

• It is concerned w/values – Technology is informed by values

– Value decisions are not only in relation to specific design criteria, but also to the rightness or wrongness of a particular solution in ethical terms

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NNature of TTechnology CConcluded• It is socially

Shaped/Shaping– Technological enterprises

determined by social interest – Technology is shaped by

society through consumer choice

– Technology can shape society

• i.e.  Technology of the motor car shaped environment and way of life

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QUESTION TIME…