Competencies

 Demonstrating Personal Qualities and Abilities

• Demonstrate creativity and innovation

• Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving.

• Demonstrate initiative and self-direction.

• Demonstrate integrity.

• Demonstrate work ethic.

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Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills

 Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills

• Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.

• Demonstrate listening and speaking skills.

• Demonstrate respect for diversity.

• Demonstrate customer service skills.

• Collaborate with team members.

Demonstrating Professional Competencies

 Demonstrating Professional Competencies

• Demonstrate big-picture thinking.

• Demonstrate career- and life-management skills.

• Demonstrate continuous learning and adaptability.

• Manage time and resources.

• Demonstrate information-literacy skills.

• Demonstrate an understanding of information security.

• Maintain working knowledge of current information-technology (IT) systems.

• Demonstrate proficiency with technologies, tools, and machines common to a specific occupation.

• Apply mathematical skills to job-specific tasks.

• Demonstrate professionalism.

• Demonstrate reading and writing skills.

• Demonstrate workplace safety.

Addressing Elements of Student Life

 Addressing Elements of Student Life

• Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.

• Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.

• Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.

• Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.

Exploring Work-Based Learning

 Exploring Work-Based Learning

• Identify the types of work-based learning (WBL) opportunities.

• (Optional) Reflect on lessons learned during the WBL experience.

• Explore career opportunities related to the WBL experience.

• (Optional) Participate in a WBL experience, when appropriate.

Introducing Technology

 Introducing Technology

• Define technology.

• Identify historical examples of technology.

• Identify how technologies have emerged through the use of engineering.

• (Optional) Research careers and the technologies used in them.

Investigating the Effects of Technology

 Investigating the Effects of Technology

• Describe how society affects technology and technology affects society.

• (Optional) Analyze how an invention or innovation was influenced by its historical context and future need.

• (Optional) Identify emerging technologies.

• Predict future technological changes.

Examining Resources of Technology

 Examining Resources of Technology

• Identify resources used in technology and engineering.

• (Optional) Identify the six simple machines that make mechanical technology work.

• (Optional) Differentiate between types of materials.

• (Optional) Select materials based on their properties when designing a technology.

• Demonstrate the safe use of a minimum of three tools and/or pieces of equipment as part of the design process.

• Explain the ethical and moral use of technologies.

• Demonstrate types of measuring.

• Create sketches and drawings.

Designing Solutions

 Designing Solutions

• Describe the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) engineering design process.

• Demonstrate the use of an engineering design process.

Using the Engineering Design Process

 Using the Engineering Design Process

• Define the goal of a challenge.

• Design a device using criteria and constraints.

• Evaluate viable solutions.

• Select a solution.

• Plan the model or prototype.

• Produce a model or prototype.

• Assess the design.

• Describe how the solution could be improved.

• Communicate the results.

• Use the engineering design process as part of a team.

Examining Systems

 Examining Systems

• (Optional) Illustrate how processes change inputs to outputs in any system.

• (Optional) Identify the parts of a system within a device.

Identifying the Contexts of Technology and Engineering

 Identifying the Contexts of Technology and Engineering

• Identify contexts of technology and engineering.

• (Optional) Describe the energy and power context of technology and engineering.

• (Optional) Describe the medical and health-related technologies contexts of technology and engineering.

• (Optional) Describe the agricultural and biological technologies contexts of technology and engineering.

• (Optional) Describe the information and communication contexts of technology and engineering.

• (Optional) Describe the built environment contexts of technology and engineering.

• (Optional) Describe the transportation and logistics contexts of technology and engineering.

• (Optional) Describe the material conversion and processing contexts of technology and engineering.

• (Optional) Describe the computation, automation, AI, and robotics contexts of technology and engineering.