13
Chapter 11
Evaluating Design Solutions
220
Modeling Design Solutions 221
Career Corner
Market Researchers 223
Technology Explained
GPS 227
Analyzing the Design 230
Redesigning Products and Structures 233
TSA Modular Activity
Computer-Aided Design (CAD),
Engineering with Animation 236
Chapter 12
Communicating Design Solutions
238
Product Documents and Reports 239
Career Corner
Engineering Technicians 242
Academic Connections: Communication
Principles of Design 245
Technology Explained
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Systems 248
Approval Documents and Reports 251
TSA Modular Activity
Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Architecture
with Animation 254
Section 4 Activities
256
Section 5
Applying Technology: Producing Products
and Structures
258
Tomorrow’s Technology Today
Terraforming 259
Chapter 13
Using Technology to Produce Artifacts
260
Production Activities 261
Career Corner
Plumbers 262
Servicing and Repairing Products
and Structures 266
STEM Connections: Science
The Principles of Expansion and Contraction 266
Chapter 14
The Types of Material Resources
and How They Are Obtained
270
Types of Natural Material Resources 271
Career Corner
Forest and Conservation Workers 274
Locating and Obtaining Natural Resources 275
STEM Connections: Science
Synthetic Fuels 278
Think Green
Green Materials 282
Chapter 15
Processing Resources
288
Mechanical Processes 290
Career Corner
Millwrights 290
Thermal Processes 294
STEM Connections: Mathematics
Calculating Board Footage 294
Technology Explained
Nuclear Energy 303
Chemical and Electrochemical Processes 304
Think Green
Volatile Organic Compounds 305
Chapter 16
Manufacturing Products
308
Types of Manufacturing Processes 310
Career Corner
Automobile Assembly Workers 312
Technology Explained
Robots 316
Think Green
Reduction 328
Automating and Controlling Processes 330