Technological tools, materials, and other resources should be selected on the basis of safety, cost, availability, appropriateness, and environmental impact. Technological processes change energy, information, and material resources into more useful forms. Computers, as tools for design, modeling, information processing, communication, and system control increase human productivity and knowledge. Technological systems are designed to achieve specific results and produce outputs, such as products, structures, services, energy, or other systems. Technology has been the driving force in the evolution of society from an agricultural to an industrial to an information base.
Technology can have positive and negative impacts on individuals, society, and the environment.
Humans have the capability and responsibility to constrain or promote technological development. Project management is essential to ensuring that technological endeavors are profitable and that products and systems are of high quality, safe, on schedule, and within budget. Interconnectedness Common Themes Students will understand the inter-relationships and common themes that connect math, science, and technology, and apply these to all disciplines. Models are simplified representations of objects, structures, or systems used in analysis, explanation, interpretation, or design. The grouping of magnitudes of size, time, frequency, and pressures or other units of measurement into a series of relative order provides a useful way to deal with the immense range and the changes in scale that affect the behavior and design of systems.