Title: Describe the characteristics and scope of technology.
Course: Engineering Explorations I (21005-I) > Section: Examining How Technology Affects Our World

Description should include the following:

- Technology is the use of resources and systems to solve problems and to extend human potential.
- Technology is dynamic.
- Technology solves human problems and meets needs (goal-directed research).
- Technology creates change.
- Technology is comprised of artifacts and human inventions.
- The scope of technology is the extent to which technology affects the natural world.
- The rate of technological development and diffusion is increasing.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are some new technologies that have emerged in the past decade?
- What are some technologies that one uses daily?
- What are some technologies that will emerge in the future?
- Why is the rate of technological development and diffusion increasing?
- How does technology impact individuals/the environment/society?
- How does a given technology evolve over time?