The document outlines various performance indicators for engineering design, tools/resources/processes, computer technology, technology systems, technology history, technology impacts, and technology management. Some examples include identifying needs for technical solutions, generating alternative solutions and choosing an optimal one, using computers to model and control systems, describing how technology has evolved and impacted society, and managing resources for technological projects.
1. Engineering Design
Performance Indicators
1: Identify needs and opportunities for technical solutions.
2: Locate and utilize a range of resources to obtain ideas.
3: Generate several ideas for alternative solutions and choose one optimal
solution.
4: Develop plans and construct a model of the solution.
5: Test a solution, present and evaluate results, and describe how the
solution might have been modified.
Tools, Resources, Processes
Performance Indicators
6: Choose and use resources for a particular purpose.
7: Use a variety of hand tools and machines.
8: Produce, market, and distribute a product.
9: Process energy into other forms.
2. Computer Technology
Performance Indicators
10: Assemble a computer system.
11: Access needed information from various Internet sites.
12: Use a computer to draw and dimension prototypical designs.
13: Use a computer as a modeling tool.
14: Use a computer to monitor and control systems.
Technology Systems
Performance Indicators
15: Select appropriate technological systems.
16: Assemble, operate, and explain the operation of systems.
17: Describe how subsystems and systems interact.
18: Describe the requirements of a system control.
Technology History Performance Indicators
19: Describe how the evolution of technology led to the shift in society.
20: Understand the contributions of people to technological development.
21: Describe how new technologies have evolved.
3. Technology Impacts Performance Indicators
22: Describe how outputs can be desired, undesired, expected, and
unexpected.
23: Describe how technology reduces costs and increases products.
Technology Management Performance Indicators
24: Manage resources in a technological project.
25: Describe products that are well designed and made.
26: Assume leadership responsibilities.