Title: Technology and Engineering Foundations (21003-36)

Demonstrating Personal Qualities and Abilities
  Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
  Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving.
  Demonstrate initiative and self-direction.
  Demonstrate integrity.
  Demonstrate work ethic.
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Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills
  Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
  Demonstrate listening and speaking skills.
  Demonstrate respect for diversity.
  Demonstrate customer service skills.
  Collaborate with team members.
Demonstrating Professional Competencies
  Demonstrate big-picture thinking.
  Demonstrate career- and life-management skills.
  Demonstrate continuous learning and adaptability.
  Manage time and resources.
  Demonstrate information-literacy skills.
  Demonstrate an understanding of information security.
  Maintain working knowledge of current information-technology (IT) systems.
  Demonstrate proficiency with technologies, tools, and machines common to a specific occupation.
  Apply mathematical skills to job-specific tasks.
  Demonstrate professionalism.
  Demonstrate reading and writing skills.
  Demonstrate workplace safety.
Examining All Aspects of an Industry
  Examine aspects of planning within an industry/organization.
  Examine aspects of management within an industry/organization.
  Examine aspects of financial responsibility within an industry/organization.
  Examine technical and production skills required of workers within an industry/organization.
  Examine principles of technology that underlie an industry/organization.
  Examine labor issues related to an industry/organization.
  Examine community issues related to an industry/organization.
  Examine health, safety, and environmental issues related to an industry/organization.
Addressing Elements of Student Life
  Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.
  Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.
  Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.
  Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.
Exploring Work-Based Learning
  Identify the types of work-based learning (WBL) opportunities.
  (Optional) Reflect on lessons learned during the WBL experience.
  Explore career opportunities related to the WBL experience.
  (Optional) Participate in a WBL experience, when appropriate.
Exploring Technology and Engineering Core Concepts
  Demonstrate problem-solving methods.
  Identify the components of a technology and engineering design notebook, journal, or portfolio.
  Define technology.
  Define engineering.
  Explain the nature, characteristics, and contexts of technology and engineering.
  Identify the core concepts of technology and engineering.
  Describe engineering practices (habits of mind).
  Identify technology and engineering career opportunities.
  Explore emerging topics in technology and engineering.
Understanding Lab and Workplace Safety
  Discuss the safety plan.
  Implement a safety plan.
  Operate lab equipment according to instructor guidelines.
  Identify job hazards.
  Maintain safe working practices around equipment.
  Explain OSHA's role in labs and workplaces.
Understanding Systems Thinking
  Describe the basic systems model.
  Distinguish between an open- and a closed-loop system.
  Distinguish between a system and a subsystem.
  Explain how systems may have varying outputs.
  Recognize the seven resources and their functions in a technological system.
  Explain what process does in a system.
  Demonstrate the uses of mathematical models in design to simulate how a proposed system might behave.
  Illustrate a technological system.
  Identify common technological processes that convert materials or energy to produce an output or solution.
  Analyze the effects of technological systems on society and the environment.
Designing Technological Products
  Describe a technology and engineering design process that is used to design a technological product.
  Explain how human factors engineering applies to product design.
  Distinguish between criteria and constraints presented in design problems.
  Explain how professionals who engage in design and technology use interdisciplinary knowledge to solve practical problems.
  Identify human values and limitations when solving design problems.
  Demonstrate the use of measurement tools and techniques associated with designing.
Using Visualization to Design
  Create a freehand sketch.
  Use computer-aided design (CAD) software to create a drawing or model.
  Construct two- and three-dimensional physical models using a variety of tools.
Exploring Technological Control
  Explain how technology can be used to control systems.
  Illustrate a functional model of a controlled device.
  Construct a functional model of a controlled device.
  Present information about a controlled device.
Using Energy as a Technological Resource
  Identify the two types of energy.
  Analyze forms of energy.
  Identify the sources of energy used with technological devices.
  Model the use of an energy system.
  (Optional) Compare methods to conserve energy through technological modification.
Analyzing Consumer Products
  Define consumer.
  Describe ways consumer products have shaped society and the environment.
  Use data to compare products.
  Reverse engineer a product.
  Analyze how a product works, using mathematical and scientific concepts.
  Describe an innovation that would improve a product.
  Draw illustrations of an improved product.
  Construct models of an improved product.
  Create a display or multimedia presentation of an improved product.
  Present recorded information about a product.
Using Materials as a Technological Resource
  Classify materials as either natural or synthetic.
  Select material for a specific design application.
  Classify materials according to type.
  Explain how material resources are processed.
  Use tools, machines, and processes to change materials to produce a designed product.
  Predict the outcomes of technological processes.
  Develop a design using recycled materials.
Practicing Technology and Engineering Design
  Evaluate the needs and wants of people in school, home, community, or world that could be met through technological change.
  Write a statement that defines a problem, challenge, need, or opportunity.
  Collect information about a technological problem to be solved.
  Generate potential solutions to the problem, challenge, need, or opportunity.
  Select the best solution for a problem.
  Optimize a prototype of the best solution.
  Evaluate the solution by comparing it with the problem statement, constraints, and criteria.
  Present the final product.
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