Title: Analyze how a product works, using mathematical and scientific concepts.
Course: Technology and Engineering Foundations (21003-36) > Section: Analyzing Consumer Products

Analysis may include

- determining the purpose/use of the product
- identifying the basic features of the product
- understanding how the product works, using the systems model
- determining whether a product meets its advertised specifications through testing and documenting results
- determining whether a product meets other needs
- determining the underlying mathematical and scientific principles such as volume, area, shape, conversion of energy, conduction, resistance, and heat.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What basic scientific knowledge was necessary for the telephone to be invented?
- What basic mathematical and scientific knowledge was necessary for the computer to be invented?
- What basic mathematical and scientific knowledge was necessary for the development of the automobile engine?