Technology & Engineering, 6th Edition
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 Tomorrow’s 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 Technological Literacy.
Table of Contents
Abbreviated Contents
Technology & Engineering, 6th Edition
- Front Matter
- Section 1 Technology
- Section 2 Technological-System Components
- Section 3 Tools of Technology
- Section 4 Problem Solving and Design in Technology
- Section 5 Applying Technology: Producing Products and Structures
- Section 6 Applying Technology: Communicating Information and Ideas
- Section 7 Applying Technology: Transporting People and Cargo
- Section 8 Applying Technology: Using Energy
- Section 9 Applying Technology: Meeting Needs through Biorelated Technologies
- Section 10 Managing a Technological Enterprise
- Section 11 Technological Systems in Modern Society
- Technical Terms
- Index