STAS - Introduction

• Science: System of knowledge of the natural world gained through the scientific method.
• Science: Primarily interested in the acquisition of knowledge.
• Science: Preoccupied with the “know-why” resulting in new knowledge usually disseminated through science papers
• Science: is a kind of human cultural activity which is practiced by people known as scientist and formerly called natural philosophers and savants.
• Science: is complex system of people, skills, facilities, knowledge, material or physical resources and technologies devoted and directed to the inquiry into and understanding of the natural world.
• Science: as a modern science is the dynamic cumulative inquiry into nature using the scientific method.
• Science: deals with the natural world
• Science: concerned with WHAT IS (exist) in the natural world
• Science: focuses on research
• Science: discovering natural phenomena (knowledge)
• Technology: Comes from Greek words tekhne meaning “art or craft” and logia meaning a ‘subject or interest”.
• Technology: Practical application of knowledge
• Technology: Science of industrial arts and manufacture
• Technology: Material products or result of human fabrication and making
• Technology: A kind of human cultural activity or endeavor which is practiced by people called technologist which include engineers, craftsmen and machinists
• Technology: A complex system of knowledge, skills, people, methods, tools, organization, facilities, materials, physical resources devoted and directed to the research, development, production as well operation of a new or improved product, process or services in a reproducible way
• Technology: Is concerned with the know-how resulting in a new product or process distributed for commercial consumption or appropriated through patents.
• Technology: Deals with how humans modify, change, alter or control the natural world
• Technology: Concerned with what can be or should be designed, made or developed from natural world and substances to satisfy human needs and wants
• Technology: focuses on development and innovation
• Technology: inventing new or better tools and materials.
• Society – an organized group of people associated as members of a community.
• Development - which involves transforming research findings into prototype inventions of new materials, devices and processes.
• Innovation - which involves commercialization of prototype inventions of Research and Development into marketable products or processes
• Research - a process of acquiring new knowledge.
• The power and promise of technology can be further enhanced through the study of technology to assure that all people are technologically literate in the future.
• Society - people in general thought of as living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions and values.
• Types of Research: Fundamental/Basic Research, Applied Research, Mission-Oriented Research
• Fundamental/Basic Research - gaining new knowledge
• Applied Research - practical application
• Mission-Oriented Research - accomplishing a particular mission or technological objective
• Types of Technology: Material Technology, Equipment Technology, Energy Technology, Information Technology, Life Technology, Management Technology
• Material technology -extraction, fabrication, processing, combination and synthesis of materials
• Equipment technology -design and fabrication of tools, instruments, devices and machines.
• Energy technology - deals with the distribution of various forms of energy such as solar panels, wind turbines and hydrothermal
• Information technology - based on machines that collect, store, process, retrieve, transmit and utilize data or information.
• Life technology - these are devices, medicines, procedures and systems designed to preserve, repair, maintain, reproduce and improve living systems.
• Management technology - Planning, organization, coordination and control of social activities
• Branches of Science: Geology, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Astronomy
• Scientific Processes: Observing, Describing, Comparing, Classifying, Measuring, Making Inference