1. Science and Engineering
Section 1-4
Science and Engineering

2. What Is Technology?
The products and processes that are designed to serve our needs
Refers to the tools and methods for creating these products and processes

3. How Does Science Relate to Technology?
Engineering uses scientific knowledge to develop technologies.
Engineers use science and math to create new technologies that serve human needs.
Engineering- the process of creating technology
Anyone can follow the engineering design process to solve a problem or address a need.

4. What is the Engineering Design Process?
Engineering design process- the process engineers use to develop a new technology
Step 1 ASK: Identifying and Researching a Need
Step 2 IMAGINE: Developing Possible Solutions
Step 3 PLAN: Making a Prototype (test model of a product)
Step 4 CREATE: Testing and Evaluating
(cost-benefit analysis- cost of doing something is worth benefit provided)
Step 5 IMPROVE: Modifying and Retesting the Solution

6. Communication Promote the technology to customers
Communicate with the public through new releases or advertisements
Publish details of the design process in journals

7. Technology and Society
Technology provides solutions for many types of social, political, and economic needs.

8. Intended Benefits
An intended benefit is the positive purpose for which a technology is designed to be used.

9. Unintended Consequences
Unintended consequences are uses or results that engineers do not purposely include in the design of products.
Unintended consequences can be beneficial and/or have a negative impact on society.

10. Bioengineering
Bioengineering- the application of engineering to living things, such as humans and plants
Bioengineers and scientists study problems that occur in living organisms and their environments.
They use their skills, knowledge, and technology to develop solutions to these problems.

11. Assistive Bioengineering
Assistive bioengineering- engineering that results in a product or process that helps living organisms but does not change them permanently
Examples: hearing aid, eyeglasses, prosthetic limbs, sterilized bandages

12. Adaptive Bioengineering
Adaptive bioengineering- engineering that results in a product or process that changes living organisms
Examples: cochlear implant, artificial heart