Technology 418
Stevens Institute Of Technology
To foster student and graduate success, the college provides a hands-on, project-based studying surroundings and emphasizes innovation, scholarship, and utilized research. [newline]Technology assessment arose in the mid-1960s from an appreciation of the crucial function of technology in fashionable society and its potential for unintended, and sometimes dangerous, consequences. Experience with the unwanted side effects of a large number of chemical, industrial and agricultural processes and such services as transportation, well being, and useful resource management contributed to this understanding. Early assessments concerned such subjects as offshore oil drilling, pesticides, vehicle air pollution, nuclear power vegetation, supersonic…