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| Biomedical technology | The application of health care theories to develop methods, products and tools to maintain or improve homeostasis. |
| Biotechnology | The ways that humans apply biological concepts to produce products and provide services. |
| Closing the loop | A link in the circular chain of recycling events that promotes the use of products made with recycled materials. |
| Commodities | Economic goods or products before they are processed and/or given a brand name, such as a product of agriculture. |
| Construction technology | The ways that humans build structures on sites. |
| Consumer | A person buying goods or services for personal needs or to use in the production of other goods for resale. |
| Delineate | To trace the outline; to draw; to sketch; to depict or picture. |
| Dichotomous | Divided or dividing into two parts or classifications. |
| Electronic communication | System for the transmission of information using electronic technology (e.g., digital cameras, cellular telephones, Internet, television, fiber optics). |
| Engineering | The application of scientific, physical, mechanical and mathematical principles to design processes, products and structures that improve the quality of life. |
| Ergonomical | Of or relating to the design of equipment or devices to fit the human body’s control, position, movement and environment. |
| Fact | Information that has been objectively verified. |
| Homeostasis | The tendency for a system to remain in a state of equilibrium by resisting change. |
| Hypothesis | An assertion subject to verification or proof as a premise from which a conclusion is drawn. |
| Incinerating | Burning to ashes; reducing to ashes. |
| Information technology | The technical means that humans create to store and transmit information. |
| Inquiry | A systematic process for using knowledge and skills to acquire and apply new knowledge. |
| Instructional technology | Any mechanical aid (including computer technology) used to assist in or enhance the process of teaching and learning. |
| Law | Summarizing statement of observed experimental facts that has been tested many times and is generally accepted as true. |
| Manufacturing technology | The ways that humans produce goods and products. |
| Mitigation | The policy of constructing or creating man-made habitats, such as wetlands, to replace those lost to development. |
| Model | A description, analogy or a representation of something that helps us understand it better (e.g., a physical model, a conceptual model, a mathematical model). |
| Patterns | Repeated processes that are exhibited in a wide variety of ways; identifiable recurrences of the element and/or the form. |
| Physical technology | The ways that humans construct, manufacture and transport products. |
| Regulation | A rule or order issued by an executive authority or regulatory agency of a government and having the force of law. |
| Risk management | A strategy developed to reduce or control the chance of harm or loss to one’s health or life; the process of identifying, evaluating, selecting and implementing actions to reduce risk to human health and to ecosystems. |
| Scale | Relates concepts and ideas to one another by some measurement (e.g., quantitative, numeral, abstract, ideological); provides a measure of size and/or incremental change. |
| Science | Search for understanding the natural world using inquiry and experimentation |
| System | A group of related objects that work together to achieve a desired result. |
| Closed Loop system | A group of related objects that have feedback and can modify themselves. |
| Open Loop system | A group of related objects that do not have feedback and cannot modify themselves. |
| Subsystem | A group of related objects that make up a larger system (e.g., automobiles have electrical systems, fuel systems). |
| Technological design | Recognizing the problem, proposing a solution, implementing the solution, evaluating the solution and communicating the problem, design and solution. |
| Technology education | The application of tools, materials, processes and systems to solve problems and extend human capabilities. |
| Theory | Systematically organized knowledge applicable in a relatively wide variety of circumstances; especially, a system of assumptions, accepted principles and rules of procedure devised to analyze, predict or otherwise explain the nature or behavior of a specified set of phenomena. |
| Tool | Any device used to extend human capability including computer-based tools. |
| Transportation systems | A group of related parts that function together to perform a major task in any form of transportation. |
| Transportation technology | The physical ways humans move materials, goods and people. |
