Technology as a System

Technology as a System

Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT a natural system?

• Circulatory System

• Solar System

• School System

• Digestive System

• Water Cycle

Multiple Choice

The process of understanding and mentally exploring systems in multiple ways is called systems _______

• Modeling

• Society

• Technology

• Thinking

Multiple Choice

What are the parts of the Universal Systems Model?

• feedback, inputs, processes, outputs, goal

• systems, models, universal

• input, output, tools, machines

• I don't know

Open Ended

In what way or ways is technology a system?

​Technology is like a system becase...

​Each technology has parts, and each part has a relationship with all other parts and to  the whole. The parts work together in a predictable way, and they are designed to  achieve a goal. 

Multiple Choice

True or False: Inputs are the resources that go into a system and are  used by the system.

• True

• False

• I don't know

Multiple Choice

What are the inputs to a system?

• Goal, Input, Output, Process, Feedback

• People, materials, tools and machines, energy, information,  finances, time

• electricity, paper, Wal-Mart 

• I don't know

Multiple Choice

Which of the following bring specific knowledge, attitudes, and skills to a technological system?

• Finances

• Machine

• People

• Technology

Open Ended

What is information?

​Information is...

​Data is facts and figures. Information is data that has been organized and grouped  according to its type.

Multiple Choice

 In which of the following steps of the engineering design process does a person or group develop basic information about the problem and the design limitations?

• Develop a Design Solution 

• Gather Information 

• Identify and Define a Problem 

• Model and Make a Solution

Open Ended

Explain what happens during the Evaluate the Solution step of the engineering design process.

​During the evaluate phase of the design process

​A person or group tests the physical, graphic, computer, or mathematical models of the selected solution.

Open Ended

What are some of the unintended or undesireable outputs of the production process?

​Unintended consequences of Production..

include scrap, waste, chemical by-products, fumes, noise, air pollution, congestion soil erosion, etc.

Open Ended

What are management processes?

​Management processes are..

​Management processes are all the actions people use to ensure that the production processes operate efficiently and appropriately.

Multiple Choice

Planning is...

• Setting goals and

  developing courses

  of action

• Dividing tasks

  into segments

• Assigning and

  supervising work

• Comparing output

  to goal

Multiple Choice

Actuating is ...

• Setting goals and

  developing courses

  of action

• Dividing tasks

  into segments

• Assigning and

  supervising work

• Comparing output

  to goal

Multiple Choice

Controlling is ...

• Setting goals and

  developing courses

  of action

• Dividing tasks

  into segments

• Assigning and

  supervising work

• Comparing output

  to goal

Multiple Choice

Organizing is ...

• Setting goals and

  developing courses

  of action

• Dividing tasks

  into segments

• Assigning and

  supervising work

• Comparing output

  to goal

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the process of using information about the outputs of a system to regulate the inputs?

• Feedback

• Output

• Input

• Process

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