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Engineering Academy
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Course Descriptions:
Pre-Engineering: This course is UC “G” (college preparatory elective) approved and meets one of the following graduation requirements: vocational education or elective. Credits: 10. This course is a Project Lead the Way (PLTW) high school engineering course. This course is designed to generate an interest in engineering and related occupations as career goals and expose students to the associated technologies through hands-on instruction and problem-solving activities. Scientific principles, mathematical concepts, and communication skills are taught through an activity oriented approach. Robotics, electronics, manufacturing processes, pneumatics, mechanisms, and computer design technologies will be explored by students. Student teams will progress through an articulated modular instructional system.
Principles of Engineering: This course is UC “G” (college preparatory elective) approved and meets one of the following graduation requirements: vocational education or elective. (Prerequisite: Introduction to Engineering Design) Credits: 10. This course is a Project Lead the Way (PLTW) high school engineering course. Designed for students who wish to explore a broad range of engineering topics including engineering achievements throughout history, career fields in engineering, mechanisms, energy and power, materials and structures, sketching techniques, automation, statistics, and kinematics. Students develop problem-solving skills as they complete research and design projects to create solutions to various engineering problems. Students document their work in the engineering notebook, and create a professional portfolio communicating their solutions and newly acquired skills to peers and members of the professional community.
Digital Electronics: This course is UC “G” (college preparatory elective) approved and meets one of the following graduation requirements: vocational education or elective. Credits: 10. This course is a Project Lead the Way (PLTW) high school engineering course. Digital electronics is the foundation of all modern electronic devices such as cellular phones, Moving Picture Experts Group Layer-3 (M-PEG 3 or MP3) players, laptop computers, digital cameras, high definition televisions. Students investigate the digital circuit design process to create circuits and present solutions that can improve people’s lives. The major focus of the Digital Electronics course is to expose students to the design process of combinational and sequential logic design, teamwork, communication methods, engineering standards and technical documentation.
Engineering Design and Development: This course is UC “G” (college preparatory elective) approved and meets one of the following graduation requirements: vocational education or elective. (Prerequisite: Digital Electronics) Credits: 10. This course is a Project Lead the Way (PLTW) high school engineering course. It is an engineering research course in which students work in teams to design and develop an original solution to a valid open-ended technical problem by applying the engineering design process. The course applies and concurrently develops secondary level knowledge and skills in mathematics, science, and technology.
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