COURSE CODE: 8405

Technology Transfer

SCED Code: 21052
Virginia Extended Description: 36
Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 140
Credits: 1
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: TSA
Non-Traditional?: F

Students learn how existing technologies developed for one purpose can be applied to a different function. Groups work together, applying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) concepts to projects. Students engage in hands-on activities to learn that the transfer of a technology from one society to another can cause cultural, social, economic, and political challenges. 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.

Virginia’s High Demand Occupations and Apprenticeable Occupations

Section § 2.2-2472 of the Code of Virginia requires the Virginia Board of Workforce Development (VBWD) to publish a list of jobs, trades, and professions for which a high demand for qualified workers exists or is projected.  The Virginia Office of Education Economics (VOEE) collaborated with the VBWD and related stakeholders to develop the high demand occupations list. VOEE’s mission is to leverage data to inform educational programming, policy, and workforce partnerships across the Commonwealth.  See also the Virginia 2024 High Demand Occupations Dashboard

Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Code, Occupation Description, and Active Apprenticeable Occupation status (Yes/No per the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry). 

SOC Code Occupation Description Apprenticeable Occupation
172011 Aerospace Engineers No
171011 Architects, Except Landscape and Naval No
172051 Civil Engineers No
173022 Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians No
172061 Computer Hardware Engineers No
172071 Electrical Engineers No
173023 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians Yes
173024 Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians Yes
172112 Industrial Engineers Yes
173026 Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians Yes
172141 Mechanical Engineers Yes
173027 Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians Yes
131082 Project Management Specialists No
273042 Technical Writers No
195011 Occupational Health and Safety Specialists Yes
131081 Logisticians No
519199 Production Workers, All Other Yes
514021 Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic No
514111 Tool and Die Makers Yes

Career Clusters

Pathway Occupation
Energy Sustainability and Efficiency
Fuels Production
Power Generation
Transmission and Distribution

Pathway Occupation
Health, Safety, & Environmental Assurance
  • Occupational Health and Safety Specialists
Logistics & Inventory Control
  • Logisticians
Manufacturing Production Process Development
  • Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians
  • Industrial Engineers
  • Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • 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
  • Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other

Pathway Occupation
Engineering & Technology
  • Aerospace Engineers
  • Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
  • Civil Engineers
  • Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Commercial and Industrial Designers
  • Computer Hardware Engineers
  • 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 Engineers
  • Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians
  • Power Plant Operators
  • Project Management Specialists
  • Statisticians
Science & Mathematics
  • Materials Scientists
  • Technical Writers

Pathway Occupation
Logistics Planning & Management Services
Sales & Service
Health, Safety, & Environmental Management
Facility & Mobile Equipment Maintenance
Transportation Operations
Transportation Systems/Infrastructure Planning, Management & Regulation
Warehousing & Distribution Center Operations
Health, Safety, & Environmental Management

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