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.

Explain types of drawings required for various kinds of architectural and engineering projects.

Demonstrate technical sketching techniques.

Set up and utilize an engineering notebook or architectural journal to document and communicate ideas, designs, and projects.

Use trade-related tools to take and record measurements.

Lay out a drawing sheet that includes a border, standard notes, required symbols, and a title block with necessary information, including material, project name, sheet size, and name of drafter.

Identify standard symbols used in architectural and engineering plans.

Determine sheet sizes for layout and printing based on the scale chosen.

Interpret lines on a technical drawing according to the alphabet of lines and explain line precedence order.

Utilize CAD software to generate and save a multi-view drawing, using file management techniques and CAD and editing commands.

Construct basic, two-dimensional, multi-view drawings, using orthographic projection and layout techniques to set up required views.

Explain the difference between first angle projection and third angle projection and apply the correct projection symbol to the title block.

Create various section views, utilize cutting planes, and apply section hatches and labels in multi-view drawings.

Lay out auxiliary view(s) within a multi-view drawing.

Apply dimensioning and tolerating standards to a two-dimensional drawing following the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standards.

Apply standard annotations to drawings using AIA and ASME standards.

Plot (print) construction documents to proper scale, including single-view and multi-view drawings, in hardcopy and in PDF format.