1. Technology

2. Standards
• SPI 0707.T/E.2 –Evaluate a protocol to determine if the engineering design process was successfully applied.
SPI 0707.T/E.3 -Distinguish between the intended benefits and the unintended consequences of a new technology.
SPI 0707.T/E.4 Differentiate between adaptive and assistive engineered products (e.g., food, biofuels, medicines, integrated pest management)

3. Technology and Society
Technology provides solutions for many types of social, political, and economic needs.
Intended Benefit An intended benefit is the positive purpose for which a technology is designed to be used.
Unintended Consequences Unintended consequences are uses or results that engineers do not purposely include in the design of products. An unintended consequence can be beneficial.

4. Bioengineering
The application of engineering to living things, such as humans and plants, is called bioengineering.
Bioengineered technologies can be classified as either assistive or adaptive.

5. Assistive Technologies
Assistive technologies are developed to…
help organisms without changing them
Assist = Help
Temporary
Examples:
Eyeglasses
Wheelchairs
Hearing Aids
Crutches
Airplane
Hairbrush
Doorstop

6. Adaptive Technologies
Adaptive bioengineered products…
change the living organism
Adapt = Change
Permanent
Artificial heart
Knee replacement
Lasik eye surgery
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
Ethanol (added to gasoline)

11. Unintended Consequence
Birthday Month
January - March
Adaptive
April - June
Assistive
July - September
Intended Benefit
October - December
Unintended Consequence

12. Airplane

13. Lasik Eye Surgery

14. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

15. Ethanol

16. Hearing Aids

17. Telescope

18. Artificial Heart

19. Wireless Headphones