Standards - Career & Technical Education

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces..

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Apply safety rules, regulations, and procedures related to manufacturing.

Identify types of manufacturing materials, including metallic, polymeric, ceramic, and composites.

Assess properties of manufacturing materials, including physical, mechanical, chemical, thermal, academic, electrical and magnetic, acoustical, and optical.

Differentiate among thermal, mechanical, and chemical changes in manufacturing materials.

Demonstrate casting and molding processes, including mold preparation and pouring or forcing liquids.

Demonstrate die forming and roll forming of materials.

Explain separating processes for cutting and shearing material.

Explain processes for thermal conditioning, mechanical force, and chemical action.

Demonstrate temporary, permanent, two-part, and multiple-part assembling processes.

Demonstrate finishing processes, including processes for product protection and appearance.

Compare custom, intermittent, and continuous manufacturing systems.

Describe ways to make improvements in manufacturing processes, including value adding, non-value adding, control systems, and factors to control.

Explain the importance of drafting design in today’s technological workforce.

Demonstrate the safe use of drafting design tools following established procedures and regulations.

Demonstrate mathematics skills related to drafting design, including basic fractions, scale reading, and conversion between customary and metric measurements.

Relate information on blueprints to actual locations on the print, including terms, components, and symbols.

Construct basic multiview, two-dimensional drawings, including visualizing principal views, creating third-angle projections, selecting proper drawing scale, and organizing layout of primary views.

Interpret technical information related to the manufacturing process.

Demonstrate financial management, budgeting, and investing as they relate to career goals and objectives in manufacturing industries.

Describe the use of slings, common rigging hardware, basic hitch configuration, proper connections, and basic load-handling safety practices.

Demonstrate correct use of hand tools and power tools utilized in the manufacturing industries.

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces..

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Demonstrate expertise in a specific occupation within the Manufacturing cluster.

Meet benchmarks selected by the instructor from the appropriate curriculum frameworks, based upon the individual student’s assessed needs.

Conduct investigative research on a selected topic related to manufacturing using approved research methodology; interpret findings; and prepare a presentation to defend results.

Select an investigative study referencing prior research and knowledge.