What is Technology Education?

The course TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION provides an introduction to the areas of technology, as well as a survey of some of the tools, materials, and processes used in these areas. This course gives students an opportunity to see how the different areas of technology relate with each other. Through the instruction and the activities students will become aware of how the different areas can work together, how they are used in our lives every day, and how they combine to make our technological society.

PURPOSE The purpose of the Technology Education course is to provide the student with:

1. knowledge of the technologically changing world,
2. work experiences to help that student in deciding on a future career and/or job, and
3. good and safe work habits.


INSTRUCTIONAL AREAS: Technology Education consists of five main instructional areas. These are: Biotechnology, Communications, Manufacturing, Construction, and Energy (Power) & Transportation.

These areas are studied in different units throughout the course.

INSTRUCTIONAL UNITS: Each of these instructional units will provide a look at one or more of the instructional areas. The units covered in this course can include, but not be limited to, the following:
 

Units of Study
Work Place (Lab) Safety
Electromagnetism
Aerodynamics
Construction and CAD
GIS / Mapping
Aerospace (Aviation)
Lasers & Fiber-optics
Employment Procedures
Alternate Energy
Drafting
Electronics
Video Production
Engineering Structures I
Engineering Structures II
Desk Top Publishing
Casting (Foundry)
Magnetic Levitation
Multi-Media Production
Audio Production
Metric 500
Astronautics
Sumo Car
Computerized Manufacturing
Commercial Arts
Electronic Control Systems
Power and Energy 
Communications
Road Transportation
Aerospace
Manufacturing and Automation
Weather Monitoring
R&D - Marble Coaster
R&D - Trebuchet
R&D - Kite

The basic core curriculum covered by these units includes, but is not limited to: English, Science, Physics, Geometry, and Algebra.

N. Randy Scrudder, Instructor
Page updated 12 August 2006