COURSE CODE: 8406

Technology Assessment

SCED Code: 21054
Virginia Extended Description: 18
Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Duration: 18 Weeks
Hours: 70
Credits: 0.5
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: TSA
Non-Traditional?: F

Students use their knowledge and abilities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and other disciplines to analyze the impacts of technological devices and systems. They apply information acquired through activities and research to predict future technologies. Students use hands-on activities to innovate a product or system based on their research and forecasting skills. 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
Natural Resources Systems
Plant Systems
  • Soil and Plant Scientists

Pathway Occupation
Design/Pre-Construction
  • Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
  • Civil Engineers
  • Landscape Architects

Pathway Occupation
A/V Technology & Film
  • Editors
  • Sound Engineering Technicians
Journalism & Broadcasting
  • Art Directors
  • Editors
Printing Technology
  • Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
Telecommunications
  • Computer Programmers

Pathway Occupation
Business Information Management
  • Chief Executives
  • Financial and Investment Analysts
  • Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
  • Operations Research Analysts
General Management
  • Chief Executives

Pathway Occupation
Business Finance
  • Economists

Pathway Occupation
Governance
  • Legislators
Planning
  • Urban and Regional Planners
Regulation
  • Compliance Officers

Pathway Occupation
Biotechnology Research and Development
  • Biochemists and Biophysicists

Pathway Occupation
Manufacturing Production Process Development
  • Industrial Engineers

Pathway Occupation
Engineering & Technology
  • Agricultural Engineers
  • Civil Engineers
  • Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Environmental Engineers
  • Industrial Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Materials Engineers
  • Nuclear Engineers
  • Power Plant Operators
Science & Mathematics
  • Atmospheric and Space Scientists
  • Economists
  • Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
  • Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers
  • Hydrologists
  • Technical Writers

Pathway Occupation
Facility & Mobile Equipment Maintenance
  • Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
Health, Safety, & Environmental Management
Logistics Planning & Management Services
Transportation Operations
  • Air Traffic Controllers
  • Ship Engineers
  • Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
Transportation Systems/Infrastructure Planning, Management & Regulation
  • Aerospace Engineers
  • Civil Engineers
  • Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
Warehousing & Distribution Center Operations
  • Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

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