Standards - Career & Technical Education

Explain how genetics has influenced engineering disciplines, new interdisciplinary fields, or sub-disciplines.

Explain how engineering challenges are persistent.

Explain the engineer’s responsibility to serve the public interest, his/her clients, and the profession with a high degree of honesty, integrity, and accountability.

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.

Develop a project management plan to include initiating, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing a robotic systems project.

Identify and select methodologies and skills for managing a robotics project.

Participate in the organization and operation of a robotic system engineering project.

Develop a project schedule of work according to established criteria for completing a robotics project.

Apply principles of problem-solving through collaboration and conflict resolution using positive attitudes to produce effective teamwork.

Participate in team projects in various roles.

Apply principles of effective problem-solving in teams to collaborate and to resolve conflict.

Utilize STEM concepts in the engineering design process to solve problems in robotic mechanical design.

Apply the systems model of input, process, output, feedback, and impact to solve problems in mechanical design.

Use precision measuring instruments to analyze systems and prototypes in mechanical design projects.

Calculate Newton’s Laws as they apply to robotics.

Demonstrate knowledge of motors, gears, gear ratios, and gear trains used in robotic systems.

Build, test, and present a robotic system.

Identify the characteristics and functions of manipulators, accumulators, and end effectors required for a robotic or automated system to function.

Use feedback to refine the design of a robotic or automated system to ensure the quality, efficiency, and manufacturability of the final product.

Present a completed robotic system, including a design, materials, procedure, prototype, and reflection summary, using a variety of media.

Use current software applications to program robot behavior and complete tasks.

Program robotic systems to complete an automated task using various sensors.

Create robotic system programs that use variables to store and modify data.

Create robotic system programs that utilize control statement loops and/or conditionals.

Test and debug errors in an algorithm or program that includes sequences and simple loops.

Describe the utilization of programmable control devices and data transfer in automated systems.

Identify the systems, components, and processes of a technological system.

Generate a device control flow chart or schematic for an automated manufacturing system.

State the advantages and disadvantages of utilizing various control devices, including those for pressure, heat, volume control, color, weight and timing.

Discuss the various architectures used in developing a programmable logic-controlled system.

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.