STAS (INTRODUCTION TO STAS)

• Innovation


  Commercialization of prototype inventions of Research and Development into marketable products or processes
• Development


  Transforming research findings into prototype inventions of new materials, devices, and processes
• Society


  An organized group of people associated as members of a community
• 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
• Science


  • System of knowledge of the natural world gained through the scientific method
  • Primarily interested in the acquisition of knowledge
  • Preoccupied with the “know-why” resulting in new knowledge usually disseminated through science papers
  • A kind of human cultural activity practiced by scientists and formerly called natural philosophers and savants
  • A 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
  • Modern science is the dynamic cumulative inquiry into nature using the scientific method
  • Deals with the natural world
  • Concerned with WHAT IS (exist) in the natural world
  • Focuses on Research
  • Discovering natural phenomena (knowledge)
• Research


  The process of acquiring new knowledge
• Types of Research


  1. Fundamental/Basic Research

  2. Applied Research

  3. Mission-Oriented Research
• Technology

  • Comes from Greek words tekhne meaning “art or craft” and logia meaning a ‘subject or interest”
  • Practical application of knowledge
  • Science of industrial arts and manufacture
  • Material products or result of human fabrication and making
  • A kind of human cultural activity or endeavor practiced by technologists which include engineers, craftsmen, and machinists
  • 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
  • Concerned with the know-how resulting in a new product or process distributed for commercial consumption or appropriated through patents
  • Deals with how humans modify, change, alter, or control the natural world
  • Concerned with what can be or should be designed, made, or developed from the natural world and substances to satisfy human needs and wants
  • Focuses on Development and Innovation
  • Inventing new or better tools and materials
• Types of Technology

  1. Material technology

  2. Equipment technology

  3. Energy technology

  4. Information technology

  5. Life technology

  6. Management technology
• Technology Processes

  • Identification of a specific need, desire, or opportunity
  • Conceptualization of design or plan
  • Production or execution of plan or design
  • The use of phase
• Science Processes

  • Identification of an aspect, problem, question, or phenomenon of nature of interest
  • Formulation of intellectual construct
  • Application of the construct
  • Assessment, evaluation, or analysis of the construct
  • Acceptance, adoption, modification, or rejection of the construct
• Life technology components


  • Devices
  • Medicines
  • Procedures
  • Systems designed to preserve, repair, maintain, reproduce, and improve living systems
• Scientific Processes

  • Observing
  • Describing
  • Comparing
  • Classifying
  • Measuring
  • Making inference
• Evolution of Societies

  • Hunter and Gatherer Societies
  • Shifting and Farming
  • Agricultural and Mining Societies
  • Manufacturing and Processing Societies
  • Synthesizing and Recycling Societies
• Classification of technology based on a country’s level of technological sophistication

  • First Wave Technology
  • Second Wave Technology
  • Third Wave Technology
• Management technology components

  • Planning
  • Organization
  • Coordination
  • Control of social activities
• Branches of Science

  • Geology
  • Chemistry
  • Physics
  • Biology
  • Astronomy
• Technology comes from Greek words ‘techne” meaning art or craft and logia, meaning a subject or interest. It means practical applications of what we know about nature using scientific principles for the betterment of the human situation