Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Students
survey the many broad sources of energy and power utilized in power and
transportation systems. Instruction includes:
1. how energy is converted to
power;
2. how power is transmitted
and controlled; and
3. how power is
utilized through mechanical fluid and electrical devices.
B. Career opportunities are explored in power
and transportation fields. Students build projects, conduct experiments, and
repair mechanical devices such as small engines, electric motors, and outboard
motors.
C. Technology Course
Content
1. Introduction to Transportation
Systems
a. Objectives and content of
course
b. Safety with tools,
materials, and machines
c.
Personnel system for management and maintenance
d. Career opportunities and
information
2.
Applications of power in Transportation Systems
a. What is transported
b. Where and how it is transported
c. Why transport
d. Career opportunities in transportation
technology
3. Heat
Engines
a. Internal combustion
b. External combustion
c. The use of heat engines in transportation
systems
d. Career
opportunities
4. Natural
Sources of Power
a. Wind
b. Water
c. Solar
d. Muscle
e. Other
f. The use of natural sources of power in
transportation systems
g. Career
opportunities
5.
Transmission and Control of Power
a.
Mechanical
b. Fluid power
c. Electrical power
d. Use of transmission and control of power
in transportation systems
6. Research and Development in Power and
Transportation Technology
D. TSA Instructional Activities
1. Leadership/Management Systems
a. Personnel system uses class officers to
manage class/lab routines.
b.
Officers lead class discussions to decide group activities.
c. Committees plan activities which help
students learn the methods by which people and goods are moved.
d. Students demonstrate transportation
systems and models to others.
e.
Students set up management systems to model transportation
industries.
f. Class manages
chapter activities such as transportation to conference.
2. Technological and Career Resources
a. Resource Committee lists persons and
transportation industries in community.
b. Committee organizes tour of airport,
trucking company, or other business related to course.
c. Students invite local transportation
managers to explain scheduling, bills of lading, and maintenance.
d. Committee assembles career information for
use by students.
e. Students
identify and select files on transportation.
f. Students invite community workers to
assist with model construction details.
3. Solving School/Community Problems
a. Small group or committee suggests models
and transportation items needed by school, community, or agency.
b. Students develop bulletin board to promote
safety or energy conservation.
c.
Class conducts a safety check of school or toys and other community
items.
d. Students organize a
bicycle safety program for younger children.
e. Class studies local road conditions and
offers suggestions to solve problems.
f. Students demonstrate use of transportation
system with models at local mall.
4. Enterprise Projects
a. Enterprise Committee suggests product for
class to raise funds for selected purpose.
b. Students may contract to make project for
civic group.
c. Students make model
of value to someone who will purchase model.
d. Class experiments with coal slurry
pipeline to determine economic advantages.
e. Officers organize transportation to
off-campus school activities.
f.
Committee sets up a service to solve problem for community and school
personnel.
5.
Contests/Achievement Recognition
a.
Recognition Committee suggests contests and Achievement program as learning
activities for class.
b. Class
gives awards for craftsmanship, design, or creativity in projects.
c. Students create a contest to involve
students in airplane design.
d.
Class gives awards for best transportation model.
e. Class displays models and student projects
at Open House.
f. Class gives
awards for energy conservation by students or others in school.
For further reference see: Energy,, Power, and
Transportation by Fales and Kuetemeyer Glencoe Publishing Co.,
1986
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 6:(A)(10) and
R.S.
17:10.