Understanding Technology
Technology Design Skills
General
100
How people change the world around them to meet their needs or solve practical problems.
What is technology?
100
A person who is trained to use both technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
What is engineer?
100
Process of anylizing a design problem and finding a way to fix it.
What is troubleshooting?
200
A product that is no longer used.
What is obsolete?
200
Aprocess in which group members freely suggest any creative solutions that come to mind.
What is brainstorming?
200
A legal document issued by a government that gives the inventor exclusive rights to make, use, or sell the invention for a limited time.
What is patent?
300
Made up of parts that work together.
What is system?
300
Any factor that limits or restricts a design.
What is constraint?
300
In deciding whether to use a particular technology- or how touse it- people must analyze its possible risks and benifits.
What is risk-benifit analysis?
400
A system that includes a goal,, inputs, processes, outputs, and in some cases feedback.
What is technological system?
400
An exchange in which one benifit is given up in order to obtain another.
What is trade-off?
500
A working model used to test a design.
What is prototypes?
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