An area of design that focuses on the space between interior and exterior environments, both in the private and public realm. The emphasis of the discipline is on working with people and space, partic [..]

Technology education is a planned process designed to develop students' competence and confidence in understanding and using existing technologies and in creating solutions to technological probl [..]

Information received from a person or group with a legitimate interest in a given project at any point within the development process.

Feedback is a mechanism, process or signal that works within prescribed parameters to control a system – this is called a feedback loop.

The principles, techniques, and/or procedures established by a ‘community of practice’. For example, in Construction and Mechanical Technologies accepted conventions relate to such things as flush, pa [..]

A set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty; the branch of philosophy that deals with questions of beauty and artistic taste. Aesthetics are subjective and are often conce [..]

A precise, step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps.

Statistical measurements of the human body. These play an important role in industrial design, clothing design, ergonomics, and architecture. Changes in lifestyles, nutrition, and ethnic composition o [..]

The functional and physical nature of a technological outcome.

Attributes are descriptive aspects of the physical and functional nature of a technological outcome. Specifications define the requirements of the physical and functional nature of the outcome in a wa [..]