“The Man-Made World” was a secondary school course developed by the Engineering Concepts Curriculum Project (ECCP) with NSF support over five years. The goal was an introduction to technological literacy: an understanding of the concepts underlying modern technology in order to appreciate the characteristics, capabilities, and limitations of that technology, especially as it interfaces with people and social institutions. The course has also been adapted for college offering.
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This textbook for high school students, was published in 1971. The “baby-boomers” studied engineering concepts in the era of the “slide-rule age”. Digital Revolutionaries studied this high school textbook and changed a generation. Information technology, Bioinformatics, in 1971 there was no Internet. High school students studied these concepts, and felt comfortable starting businesses in engineering.
