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Design and Preconstruction
Career Management Success
Career Management Success is a core course for career clusters. The course provides students with tools for achieving success in their academic, work, and personal lives. Course content emphasizes the basic skills and knowledge needed for employment success, as identified by industry and supported by relevant national standards. All course content is presented in a real-world context, providing concrete opportunities for developing personal and career goals, effective communication skills, teamwork abilities, and successful work attitudes. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to complete the Professional Development Program Level I and Level II of SkillsUSA or other degree programs in other career and technical youth organizations.
Recommended Grade Level(s): 9th, 10th 11th, 12th
Computer-Aided Drafting
Computer Aided Drafting is a course in which students learn the basic concepts of scale drawings and orthographic projections by making simple two- and three-dimensional drawings using manual drafting tools and computer-aided drafting (CAD). Course content will enable students to make the transition into the use of CAD software by having them make increasingly sophisticated drawings. Student work in teams will culminate in a class project to create a complete set of construction and assembly drawings for a mechanical product.
Recommended: Algebra I or Technical Algebra; basic experience with graphical computer interface
Recommended Grade Level(s): 10th, or 11th
Advanced Computer-Aided Drafting
Advanced Computer-Aided Drafting is a course in which students will learn to use a CAD program to create engineering drawings including plan drawings, assembly drawings, welding and process drawings, cross sections, 3D representations, and bills of materials. The course consists primarily of individual drawing projects, with some group projects. Emphasis is on drawing projects of increasing complexity.
Recommended: Drafting and CAD Technology; Algebra I or Technical Algebra, Geometry, or Technical Geometry
Recommended Grade Level(s): 11th or 12th