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 following protocols for fire and electrical safety.

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.

Demonstrate digital literacy by using digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically.

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

Research and explain professional, legal, and ethical responsibilities in the field of engineering, including the need for a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce.

Use industry standard best practices to document observations, ideas, sketches, calculations, and summaries of activities pertaining to the capstone project in an engineering notebook.

Conduct independent technological research throughout the process of an engineering project.

Investigate past and current engineering practices related to an engineering project to develop a solution to a problem.

Analyze research and draw conclusions to apply to problems in an engineering project.

Create a formal, narrative proposal for a rigorous and relevant project in the field of engineering.

Apply concepts of an engineering design process to a project in the field of engineering.

Describe design constraints, criteria, and trade-offs for a project in the field of engineering in regard to a variety of conditions.

Use an engineering design brief to assist in the creation of a proposal.

Communicate ideas clearly using effective writing practices in a project in the field of engineering.

Apply appropriate design methodologies by using various computer-aided design (CAD) programs to produce plans, diagrams, and working drawings for the construction of models, prototypes, and final products.

Demonstrate proper use and selection of tools, materials, procedures, and equipment in the construction of models, prototypes, and final products.

Create a report explaining the engineering project, using industry-recognized guidelines to describe it from initiation to completion.

Design and present a multimedia presentation describing the capstone project to an appropriate audience.

Construct a project portfolio that incorporates all project-related documentation, including the project proposal, research, engineering design notebook, project report, and presentation documentation.

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and following protocols for fire and electrical safety.

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.

Demonstrate digital literacy by using digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically.

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

Analyze the various software development methodologies and describe the pros and cons of each one.

Collect, document, and decompose all requirements for the completed software system.

Identify characteristics of a sound financial model to ensure a project can be developed within the projected budget.

Analyze various infrastructure options including cloud and in-house hosting for the product.

Describe software architecture within applications that makes them vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

Design strategies to counter possible threats to software security.

Develop configuration management plans and analyze technologies to manage all work products in designing software.

Implement scheduling techniques that will ensure adequate time and resources are allocated to deliver a software project on schedule and on budget.

Develop metrics and procedures that will ensure all requirements are fully implemented to customer’s quality standards.

Analyze various testing strategies and design test procedures to ensure desired functionality of software products.