COURSE CODE: 8425

Manufacturing Systems I

SCED Code: 13002
Virginia Extended Description: 36
Suggested Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 140
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: None
OSHA Compliance Required?: Yes
CTSO: TSA
Non-Traditional?: F

This course provides an orientation to careers in various fields of manufacturing. Emphasis will be placed on manufacturing systems, safety, materials, production, business concepts, and the manufacturing process. Students participate in individual and team activities to create products that demonstrate critical elements of manufacturing. 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.

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
Health, Safety, & Environmental Assurance
  • Occupational Health and Safety Specialists
Logistics & Inventory Control
  • Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance
  • Logisticians
  • Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
Manufacturing Production Process Development
  • Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
  • Industrial Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Millwrights
  • Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other
  • Production Workers, All Other
Production
  • Assemblers and Fabricators, All Other
  • Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
  • Tool and Die Makers
Quality Assurance
  • Calibration Technologists and Technicians
  • Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other

Pathway Occupation
Engineering & Technology
  • Computer Programmers
  • Electrical Engineers
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
  • Industrial Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Materials Engineers
  • Mechanical Drafters
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Power Plant Operators
  • Project Management Specialists

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