Introduction to Engineering and Technology Concepts

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Introduction to Engineering and Technology
Concepts

• Unit Four
• Chapter Two Transportation Technologies

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Instructions for Success

• Each chapter of every unit will begin with a
  Mindjog. This is a warm up question that you
  should answer in your workbook in the proper
  chapter.
• Please take notes as you move through the
  presentations in the notebook that has been
  provided.
• Sections will come up in each presentation with
  an assignment notice. Turn to the section
  detailed on the slide in your workbook and
  complete the assignment before proceeding.
• Good luck!

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Objective

• Students will define transportation technologies
  and compare past technologies to today.

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Mindjog!

• On your worksheet, please respond to the
  following question 
• Think about transportation. Now, how many
  different ways might you get from Point A to
  Point B?

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What is Transportation?

• The Mindjog asked you to consider the different
  ways you could get from Point A to Point B. Did
  you mention a car, plane, or boat?
• What is transportation anyway?
• Transportation is all acts that relocate humans
  and their possessions.
• Transportation Technology provides movement using
  technical means to extend human ability (Wright,
  2004).

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Consider

• Why is transportation important?
• Well, could you imagine life without a
  well-developed transportation system?
• Consider that 20 of the United States gross
  national product (total goods and services sold)
  is related to transportation.
• Also, half the citizens in the U.S. are licensed
  to drive an automobile (Wright, 2004).

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Transportation as a System

• Transportation, like all other technologies, is a
  system and can be viewed as interrelated.
• In general, people use four modes of
  transportation
• Land
• Water
• Air
• Space (Wright, 2004)

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Land

• Land transportation systems move people and goods
  on the surface of the earth. They have developed
  into three major types
• Highway - automobiles, buses, and trucks
• Rail freight, passenger, and mass transit
  systems
• Continuous Flow pipelines, conveyors, and
  cables (Wright, 2004).

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Water

• Water transportation systems use water to support
  the vehicle while moving people and goods.
• Water transportation includes inland waterways
  (rivers and lakes) and oceangoing systems
  (Wright, 2004).

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Air

• Air transportation systems use airplanes and
  helicopters to lift passengers and cargo into the
  air so they can be moved from place to place
  (Wright, 2004).

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Space

• Space transportation systems can best be
  described as emerging.
• It began with the space race in 1957, which
  resulted in the launch of Sputnik (a soviet
  satellite), we may one day have personal space
  travel and hypersonic aircrafts (Wright, 2004).

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Transportation System Components

• With the four transportation systems lie three
  major components. They include
• Pathways the means by which people and cargo
  link and move to distant locations within a
  network.
• Vehicles artifacts designed to carry people and
  cargo on a pathway.
• Support Structures human created material along
  pathways, including terminals, which act as
  beginning and ending points in the transportation
  process (Wright, 2004).

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Assignment 1

• Please turn to the section in your workbook
  entitled, Unit Four, Chapter Two
  Transportation Technologies.
• Complete the extension questions under the
  Assignment 1 header before moving onto the
  next section of slides.

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BEFORE MOVING ON

• Did you complete the Assignment 1 Section
  under the Unit Four, Chapter Two
  Transportation Technologies section of your
  workbook?
• If you have, please proceed to the next slide.

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Chapter Two Completed!

• Please close this presentation and launch the
  file entitled, Chapter 3 Communication
  Technologies.

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References

• Wright, R. (2004) Technology The
  Goodheart-Willcox Company, Inc.