The technology education curriculum is designed to provide a balanced mix of theoretical and practical knowledge with an abundant amount of hands-on activities included to reinforce conceptual understanding. The intent is to take advantage of the students' interest in discovering, creating, problem solving, and constructing, with a variety of tools, machines, materials, and processes.
The long term goal of technology education is to promote technological literacy as a basic focal point in the general education of all individuals. This type of education will provide students with basic understandings and skills (literacy) needed to function effectively in a technological world.
Introduction to Practical Woodworking
This course provides basic technical knowledge of basic woodworking material technology, including both instruction and project work. The course provides career information and a basic background in a variety of related fields and will allow students to work in several technologies.
Introduction to Manufacturing Technology
This course allows students to analyze organization and ownership of their own company, including research and development, finance, production of a product, as well as industrial relations, marketing concepts as they relate to the manufacturing of consumer and industrial products in the technology laboratory.
Introduction to Maintenance and Repair
This course provides technical knowledge of home or apartment maintenance and repairs. Activities include instruction in plumbing, electricity, masonry, carpentry, painting and paperhanging. Class work involves lecture, demonstrations, films; and students have several projects. Students move through basic house blueprints, design improvements to structures and practice basic maintenance techniques.
Introduction to Cabinet and Furniture Making
This course provides technical knowledge in basic and advanced furniture and cabinet making techniques and procedures. Research and development work is done in plan development, project improvement, cost estimating, and in an examination of the history of the processes being utilized.
Introduction to Mechanical Drawing and CAD
Throughout this class, students will be challenged to learn the use of different drafting tools and techniques involved in the world of industry. The class begins with hand drafting by pencil the other tools and then transitions to computer, giving the students an understanding of what is being used in today's cutting edge applications. This course lays the groundwork for students interested in engineering, architecture, industrial design, interior design, computer or film animation, etc.
Architectural Computer Aided Drafting
Prerequisite: Introduction to Mechanical Drawing with a grade of "C" or better. Open to all students. Prepares students for a technical career in engineering, architecture, industrial design, interior design, model makers, technical illustrators, artists, computer animation and film ...just to name a few. This class will provide an in depth learning experience with the industry standard, AutoCAD product Architectural Desktop 2005. The class will focus on the solid modeling of a residence and from this model produce a full set of architectural plans including kitchen renderings, walk through animations and a hand built ¼ scale model. This course is completely computer based though the model will be constructed by hand.
Advanced Computer Aided Drafting & Design (CADD)
Open to all grades. Prerequisite: Introduction to Mechanical Drawing with a grade of "C "or better. This course is for students interested in engineering, architecture, industrial design, interior design, tool design, model makers, CNC machining, technical illustration, artists, computer animation, film ...just to name a few. This class will provide an in depth learning experience with the industry standard, AUTOCAD 2005 combined with a full integration of the product 3D VIZ for animation of designs and very high quality rendering via assemblies, walk through and animation of mechanical and scientific principals or concepts.
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