COURSE CODE: PG8411

Power Generation Design and Function

SCED Code: 20904
Virginia Extended Description: II
Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 140
Credits: 1
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: TSA
Non-Traditional?: F

In this advanced course, students use hands-on applications like designing circuits, generation systems, and modeling system parts to deepen their knowledge of concepts and policies related to power generation. They explore symptoms of trouble and possible solutions. Students use and interpret engineering and technical drawings and schematics. They explore emerging trends and consider how power generation affects society and the environment. 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.

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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
Energy Sustainability and Efficiency
  • Electrical Engineers
  • Electricians
  • Environmental Engineers
  • Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other
  • Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health
  • Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
  • Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers
Fuels Production
  • Chemical Engineers
  • Chemists
  • Continuous Mining Machine Operators
  • First-Line Supervisors of Transportation Workers, All Other
  • Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians
  • Petroleum Engineers
  • Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
  • Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas
  • Wellhead Pumpers
Power Generation
  • Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Nuclear Engineers
  • Nuclear Power Reactor Operators
  • Nuclear Technicians
  • Solar Photovoltaic Installers
Transmission and Distribution
  • Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
  • Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
  • Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
  • Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators
  • Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
  • Power Distributors and Dispatchers
  • Wind Turbine Service Technicians

Pathway Occupation
Engineering & Technology
  • Chemical Engineers
  • Civil Engineers
  • Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Computer Hardware Engineers
  • Computer Programmers
  • Electrical and Electronics Drafters
  • Electrical Engineers
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
  • Environmental Engineers
  • Mechanical Drafters
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Network and Computer Systems Administrators
  • Nuclear Engineers
  • Petroleum Engineers
  • Power Plant Operators
  • Statisticians
  • Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
Science & Mathematics
  • Chemists
  • Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
  • Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers
  • Occupational Health and Safety Specialists

Pathway Occupation
Health, Safety, & Environmental Management
Logistics Planning & Management Services
Transportation Systems/Infrastructure Planning, Management & Regulation
  • Civil Engineers
  • Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

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