Technology and Engineering

Name: Technology and Engineering
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ISBN: 9781605254128

ISBN-10: 1605254126

ISBN-13: 9781605254128

Edition: 6th 2012

Authors: R. Thomas Wright

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Technology & Engineering will help students realize how technology affects people and the world in which we live. Numerous illustrations and easy-to-read text enable understanding of how people use technology and why technological systems work the way they do. Student-friendly features, such as tomorrows Technology Today, Technology Explained, Academic Connections, STEM Connections, Think Green, and Career Corners, provide numerous practical examples of the impacts of technology on our world. This edition of the book contains information on automation and robotics, digital photography, digital signals, and job skills and employment. The book is fully correlated to the Standards for…

Book details

List price: $88.00
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Goodheart-Willcox Publisher
Publication date: 10/18/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 816
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 4.598
Language: English




Technology: A Dynamic, Human-Created System



Technology as a System



Types of Technological Systems



Inputs to Technological Systems



Technological Processes



Outputs and Feedback and Control



Production Tools and Their Safe Use



Measurement Systems and Tools and Their Role in Technology



The Problem-Solving and Design Process



Developing Design Solutions



Evaluating Design Solutions



Communicating Design Solutions



Using Technology to Product Artifacts



The Types of Material Resources and How They Are Obtained



Processing Resources



Manufacturing Products



Construction Structures



Using and Servicing Products and Structures



Using Technology to Communicate



Printed Graphic Communication



Photographic Communication



Telecommunication



Computer and Internet Communication



Using Technology to Transport



Transportation Vehicles



Operating Transportation Systems



Energy: The Foundation of Technology



Energy-Conversion Systems



Agricultural and Related Biotechnologies



Food-Processing Technologies



Medical and Health Technologies



Organizing a Technological Enterprise



Operating Technological Enterprises



Using and Assessing Technology



Technology: A Societal View



Technology: A Personal View