Understanding Technological Systems

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-45440-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 267 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 751 g

Reihe: Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krupczak, Jr.

Krupczak, Jr., John

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Konstruktionslehre und -technik
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Elektrotechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Maschinenbau Konstruktionslehre, Bauelemente, CAD

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Technology: Form and Function.- Transforming Materials, Energy, and Information.- Components and Subfunctions.- Phenomena and Models.- Diversity of Underlying Principles.- Component Parameterization and Transfer.- Components, Systems, and Sociotechnical System.- System Design.- Technological Domains.- Evolution and Innovation.

Über Autor(innen)

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).