2 FOUNDATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
Course #1260
This course is designed to serve as the introductory course in the Technology and Engineering
program and will serve as a prerequisite for all other Technology and Engineering classes.
Students in this course will study manufacturing, construction, visual communications and energy
& power technologies and identify their role in maintaining competitive economic growth.
This course will focus on the three dimensions of technological literacy: knowledge, ways of
thinking & acting, and capabilities. The ultimate goal is for students to develop the
characteristics of a technologically literate citizen.
Students will develop an understanding of engineering design, the formal process that transforms
ideas into products or systems of the man-made world.
The course will conclude with the synthesizing of major ideas through an understanding of the
core concepts of technology with an emphasis on systems-thinking and related principles.