Understanding Technological Systems

John Krupczak, Jr. is a professor of engineering at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Advancement of the Scholarship of Engineering Education (CASEE) of the National Academy of Engineering. Krupczak was founding chair of the Technological and Engineering Literacy Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). From 2013–2016 he served as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation. Krupczak received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. in Physics from Williams College. He is a contributing author to 30-Second Engineering: 50 key principles, methods, and fields explained in half a minute (Ivy Press 2019) and Philosophy and Engineering Education: New Perspectives, An Introduction (Morgan & Claypool 2022).

• Introduction.- Technology: Form and Function.- Transforming Materials, Energy, and Information.- Components and Subfunctions.- Phenomena and Models.- Diversity of Underlying Principles.- Component Parameterization and Transfer.- Components, Systems, and Sociotechnical System.- System Design.- Technological Domains.- Evolution and Innovation.