COURSE CODE: 8019

Agricultural Fabrication & Emerging Technologies

SCED Code: 18404
Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 140
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: None
OSHA Compliance Required?: Yes
CTSO: FFA
Non-Traditional?: F

Students will receive instruction in metal fabrication, including cutting, welding, and cold metalworking processes, for agricultural applications. The course will also include the investigation of emerging technologies used within the field of agriculture. Leadership and career skills will be incorporated throughout. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.

Notes

Competencies within this course ensure compliance with the National FFA Organization's Federal Charter Amendments Act (Public Law 116-7). Through this legislation, students are provided opportunities for leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.

Class Size Regulation

The Virginia Administrative Code regulates the class size for this course. For additional information, see 8VAC20-120-150, "Maximum class size," or contact the Virginia Department of Education Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education at cte@doe.virginia.gov.

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Course Sequences

A combination of this course and those below, equivalent to two 36-week courses, is a concentration sequence. Students wishing to complete a specialization may take additional courses based on their career pathways. A program completer is a student who has met the requirements for a CTE concentration sequence and all other requirements for high school graduation or an approved alternative education program.

Career Clusters

Pathway Occupation
Agribusiness Systems
  • Buyers and Purchasing Agents, Farm Products
  • Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
  • First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
  • Sales Managers
Animal Systems
  • Animal Breeders
  • Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
Environmental Service Systems
  • Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
Natural Resources Systems
  • Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians
  • Logging Equipment Operators
Plant Systems
  • Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers
  • Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
  • Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
Power, Structural, & Technical Systems
  • Agricultural Engineers
  • Agricultural Equipment Operators
  • Machinists
  • Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers

Pathway Occupation
Engineering & Technology
  • Agricultural Engineers
  • Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
  • Assemblers and Fabricators, All Other
  • Civil Engineers
  • Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Commercial and Industrial Designers
  • Electrical and Electronics Drafters
  • Electrical Engineers
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
  • Environmental Engineers
  • Industrial Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Landscape Architects
  • Marine Engineers and Naval Architects
  • Materials Engineers
  • Mechanical Drafters
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Stockers and Order Fillers
  • Technical Writers

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