COURSE CODE: 8460

Modeling & Simulation Technology

SCED Code: 21015
Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 140
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: None
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: TSA
Non-Traditional?: F

Students will explore the use of modeling and simulation as well as game development concepts and software, to solve real-world problems in multiple domain areas. Activities will include developing, evaluating, and testing engineering designs, employing geospatial data, observing and analyzing physics simulations, designing games for educational purposes, and designing and creating visualization systems with three-dimensional (3D) models. Students will develop an understanding of the concepts, systems, processes, tools, and implications of the field of modeling and simulation and associated design and visualization technologies. 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
Information Support & Services
  • Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers
Network Systems
Programming & Software Development
Web & Digital Communications

Pathway Occupation
Engineering & Technology
  • Aerospace Engineers
  • Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
  • Chemical Engineers
  • Civil Engineers
  • Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Commercial and Industrial Designers
  • Electrical Engineers
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
  • Engineers, All Other
  • Environmental Engineers
  • Industrial Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Landscape Architects
  • Marine Engineers and Naval Architects
  • Materials Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Nuclear Engineers
  • Petroleum Engineers
  • Power Plant Operators
Science & Mathematics
  • Atmospheric and Space Scientists
  • Chemists
  • Economists
  • Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
  • Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers
  • Hydrologists
  • Microbiologists

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