Making and Doing
Directions:
Step 1 – Review the information posted below.
Step 2 – Answer the question(s) in a clear and organized paragraph.
Technology and Engineering Practices - Making and Doing
Making and doing are at the heart of what makes technology and engineering so different from other fields.
Technologists and engineers design, model, build, and use technological products and systems.
Whether through use of computer software, tools and machines, or other methods, technologists and engineers learn by making and doing.
Making refers to the act of creating something; using hands-on processes associated with designing, building, operating, and evaluating technological products and systems.
Doing includes a host of activities, including modeling, programming, using tools and equipment, creating presentation materials, and many others.
Making and doing involves creating innovated solutions to open-ended challenges, using multiple approaches.
Making and doing involves optimizing solutions based on end users’ needs, design constraints, and other criteria.
Making and doing involves designing and developing creative solutions using materials and techniques in unique ways.
Making and doing involves structural design, properties of materials, aesthetics, ergonomics, and cost effectiveness.
Making and doing also includes discovering how devices work and searching for new ways to accomplish tasks, the appropriate use of materials and tools, safely operating tools and equipment, manipulating materials appropriately, modeling, and prototyping.
Modeling and prototyping includes conceptual models in the form of ideas and concepts, mathematical models that explore quantities, precision, and relationships, graphical models such as sketches, graphs, and charts, physical models and prototypes that express mass, form, and function, virtual models that simulate designs and system performance, 3D design, and virtual models.
Questions
Answer the following question(s) in a clear and organized paragraph.
- Start with your topic sentence. This is where you should state your ideas.
- Then, include evidence to support your ideas.
- Finally, finish your paragraph with a brief wrap-up sentence.
- Then, include evidence to support your ideas.
- Finally, finish your paragraph with a brief wrap-up sentence.
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