Introduction to technological development
Not offered in 1995
DE BS GH
Mr Wayne Kirstine
6 points * Full-year subject * 2 hours per week of lectures/tutorials and project work * Gippsland/Distance
This subject introduces the student to the meaning of `technology' and the `technological process', and explores the historical development of technology as a means of meeting human needs and developing energy sources. Study materials are presented in seven sections - definitions and directions; early technologies; wind and water power; steam power and heat engines; electrical power; information technology; current issues. The subject is taught by lectures, tutorials and individual projects for Gippsland students and by study guides, readers, videotapes and individual project work for distance education students. A case study approach will be used to emphasise the technological development process and to develop personal skill in applying it.
Assessment
Assignments and projects: 100%
Prescribed texts
Pacey A The maze of ingenuity Allen Lane, 1974 (or the latest edition published by MIT Press)