Understanding Technological Systems 1st ed. 2024 Edition
Author(s): John Krupczak Jr. (Author)
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 28 Nov. 2023
Edition: 1st ed. 2024
Language: English
Print length: 301 pages
ISBN-10: 3031454405
ISBN-13: 9783031454400
Book Description
This book is about understanding technology using the perspective of systems. It addresses the need for an accessible approach to understanding the broad range of technological devices and systems that create the modern world. Understanding technological systems offers an introduction to engineering and technology centered on the underlying structure common to all technological objects. This framework views technological systems as created using components to provide specific capabilities or functions. Components contributing well-defined functions interact with other components to create systems. Major topics include the concepts of technological function and the embedding of functional capabilities in physical components, the hierarchical nature of systems, and the clustering of related systems into technological domains. The book fills the gap between engineering science and engineering design.
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This book is about understanding technology using the perspective of systems. It addresses the need for an accessible approach to understanding the broad range of technological devices and systems that create the modern world. Understanding technological systems offers an introduction to engineering and technology centered on the underlying structure common to all technological objects. This framework views technological systems as created using components to provide specific capabilities or functions. Components contributing well-defined functions interact with other components to create systems. Major topics include the concepts of technological function and the embedding of functional capabilities in physical components, the hierarchical nature of systems, and the clustering of related systems into technological domains. The book fills the gap between engineering science and engineering design.
Explains the underlying characteristics common to all types oftechnology
Describes common features of technological systems helping readers to understand technology and engineering
Emphasizes the structure of technological systems and the implications for the engineering design process
About the Author
John Krupczak, Jr. is a professor of engineering at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Advancement of the Scholarship of Engineering Education (CASEE) of the National Academy of Engineering. Krupczak was founding chair of the Technological and Engineering Literacy Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). From 2013–2016 he served as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation. Krupczak received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. in Physics from Williams College. He is a contributing author to 30-Second Engineering: 50 key principles, methods, and fields explained in half a minute (Ivy Press 2019) and Philosophy and Engineering Education: New Perspectives, An Introduction (Morgan & Claypool 2022).
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