Science as practised
There are three important strands to the work of people who apply science:
* The application of knowledge, methods, tests and trials to provide data, deliver a product or solve problems.
* The communication of knowledge, expertise, benefits and implications of scientific work both within the science community and outside.
* Management including working with others and the deployment of resources within constraints of material resources, time, budgets and the need to avoid harm to people and the environment.
The purposes of practical scientific activity include:
* characterising, analysing and identifying
* making, growing, building and synthesising
* monitoring, controlling, managing and regulating.
In all these activities, measurement is at the heart of what scientists do, and so the concepts of valid measurement are central to an applied course.
