What do we know about Food Technology?

Technological Outcome

• What you need to do to solve the problem

• All the people or groups of people that you are designing the product for

• Products or systems designed and created by people to meet a need or opportunity

• A description of the situation, problem or setting the scene

Scenario

• What you need to do to solve the problem

• All the people or groups of people that you are designing the product for

• Products or systems designed and created by people to meet a need or opportunity

• A description of the situation, problem or setting the scene

Brief

• A statement that tells you what you need to do to solve the problem

• All the people or groups of people that you are designing the product for

• Products or systems designed and created by people to meet a need or opportunity

• A description of the situation, problem or setting the scene

Attributes

• What you need to do to solve the problem

• All the people or groups of people that you are designing the product for

• Products or systems designed and created by people to meet a need or opportunity

• Words that describe the features of a product or outcome

Specifications

• What you need to do to solve the problem

• All the people or groups of people that you are designing the product for

• When attributes are expanded to be measurable and observable

• Words that describe the features of a product or outcome

Modifications

• Changes that need to be made, usually improvements, so that specifications are met

• All the people or groups of people that you are designing the product for

• When attributes are expanded to be measurable and observable

• Words that describe the features of a product or outcome

Stakeholders

• Changes that need to be made, usually improvements, so that specifications are met

• All the people or groups of people that you are designing the product for

• When attributes are expanded to be measurable and observable

• Words that describe the features of a product or outcome

What is the correct order for the Technology Process?

• Evaluate, Plan & Make, Ideas, Research, Need/Problem

• Plan & Make, Need/Problem, Evaluate, Research, Ideas

• Need/Problem, Research, Ideas, Plan & Make, Evaluate

• Ideas, Need/Problem, Research, Plan & Make, Evaluate

What a product looks like or is made of (this includes sensory descriptors)

• Physical Attributes

• Functional Attributes

What a product does - its usefulness or action - so it can do its job

• Physical Attributes

• Functional Attributes