5653 Aircraft Mechanics, Combination
This instructional program prepares the individual for employment as an airframe mechanic, a power plant mechanic, or a combination of airframe and power (A & P) mechanic. It includes instruction in inspection, repair, service, and overhaul of airplane parts, including engines, propellers, instruments, airframes, fuel and oil tanks, control cables, and hydraulic units. This program is designed to meet Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) licensure requirements.
5980 Applied Communications
Applied Communications is an instructional program designed for students planning technical careers. Fifteen modules emphasize that the workplace requires various communications skills, which seldom occur in isolation. Each module includes a variety of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and problem-solving skills involved in the life and work situations presented.
5670 Automatic Transmission/Transaxle
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as automatic transmission/transaxle specialists. This program includes instruction in general transmission/transaxle problem diagnosis, transmission/transaxle maintenance and adjustment, and in-car and off-car transmission/transaxle repair.
5664 Automotive Body Repair
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as auto body technicians. It includes instruction in plastics and adhesives, mechanical and electrical components, structural analysis and damage repair, and nonstructural analysis and damage repair.
5654 Automotive Body Repair and Refinishing, Combination
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as combination auto body repair and auto painting and refinishing technicians. This comprehensive program includes instruction in painting and refinishing, plastics and adhesives, mechanical and electrical components, structural analysis and damage repair, and nonstructural analysis and damage repair.
5655 Automotive Mechanics, Combination
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as automotive service technicians. This comprehensive program includes instruction in the maintenance and repair of automatic transmissions and transaxles, brakes, electrical systems, engine performance systems, engine heating and air-conditioning systems, manual drive trains and axles, and suspension and steering systems.
5666 Automotive Painting and Refinishing
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as auto painting and refinishing technicians. It includes instruction in surface preparation; spray gun operation; paint mixing, matching, and applying; solving paint application problems; causes and cures for finish defects; and safety precautions.
5688 Automotive Specialty, Other Combinations
This instructional program combines specialty programs in a manner not otherwise described in this listing.
5652 Automotives
This instructional program prepares individuals to be better automobile owners and drivers. The program can also serve as the first phase of programs that ultimately prepare individuals for employment in industries that require servicing and maintenance of automotive/truck/aircraft/air-cooled gasoline-engine-powered equipment. Instruction includes but is not limited to the role of the automobile in the nation and the world's economy; employment opportunities, working conditions, and training requirements in occupations related to the automobile; the principles of operation of the basic automotive systems; and the basic servicing and maintenance of automotive systems.
5656 Aviation and Aerospace Transportation Services
The Aviation and Aerospace Transportation Services pathway prepares students for postsecondary education and employment in the aviation and aerospace industries.
5674 Brakes
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as brake specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in hydraulic system diagnosis and repair, drum brake diagnosis and repair, disc brake diagnosis and repair, the diagnosis and repair of power assist units, and miscellaneous (wheel bearings, parking brakes, electrical, and so forth) diagnosis and repair.
5676 Brakes/Suspension and Steering, Combination
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as combination brakes/suspension and steering specialists. This program includes instruction in the combined skills of the separate programs for brakes, steering, and suspension.
5663 Collision, Repair, and Refinishing
The Collision Repair and Refinishing pathway prepares students for postsecondary education and employment in the transportation industry, including, but not limited to, body and frame straightening, estimating, painting and refinishing.
5657 Diesel Equipment Mechanics
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as heavy-duty truck technicians. This comprehensive program includes instruction in diesel and gasoline engine maintenance and overhaul; repair and adjustment of fuel injection systems; repair and replacement of water pumps, generators, governors, auxiliary and accompanying power units and controls; transmissions, drive lines, and drive axles; brakes, tires, and wheels; steering and suspension systems; electrical and lighting systems; hydraulics and pneumatics; safety codes and regulations; and general shop skills, including brazing and welding.
5678 Engine Performance (including emission control)
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as engine performance specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in general engine diagnosis, ignition system diagnosis and repair, fuel and exhaust systems diagnosis and repair, emissions control systems diagnosis, California's smog certification program, and other engine-related services.
5680 Engine Performance/Electrical Systems, Combination
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as combination engine performance and electrical systems specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in the combined skills of the separate engine performance and electrical systems programs.
5684 Engine Performance/Engine Repair, Combination
This instructional program prepares individuals as combination engine performance and engine repair specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in the combined skills of the separate engine performance and engine repair programs.
5682 Engine Repair
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as engine repair specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in general engine diagnosis and repair, cylinder head and valve train diagnosis and repair, engine block diagnosis and repair, and lubricating and cooling systems diagnosis and repair.
5658 Heavy Equipment Maintenance and Repair
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as heavy equipment mechanics. This comprehensive program deals with field and shop maintenance and repair of heavy-duty and construction equipment, including earth-moving and materials-handling equipment, and instruction in the inspection, maintenance, and repair of tracks, wheels, tires, and brakes. Instruction also covers operating controls, transmissions, drive systems and drive axles, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, electrical and electronic circuitry, engines, and general shop skills, including welding and brazing.
5651 Introduction to Power, Energy, and Transportation
This introductory course enables an individual to sample the many courses and programs included in the power, energy, and transportation cluster. The purpose of the course is to assist an individual in understanding the basic skills and knowledge needed to pursue further study in the cluster and to aid in making intelligent and meaningful career and educational choices. Instructional activities focus on the theory, maintenance, and servicing of machines and devices especially on energy sources, small gasoline engines, basic electricity, and methods of transmitting power.
5671 Manual Drive Train and Axles
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as manual drive train and axle specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in clutch diagnosis and repair, transmission diagnosis and repair, transaxle diagnosis and repair, drive (half) shaft and universal joint diagnosis and repair, drive axle diagnosis and repair, and four-wheel drive component diagnosis and repair.
5659 Marine Power Plant Maintenance
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as marine power plant mechanics. Instruction includes the maintenance and repair of inboard and outboard marine engines, steering systems, electrical systems, propellers, and other propulsion systems.
5660 Motorcycle Repair
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as motorcycle mechanics. This comprehensive program provides instruction in the repair and maintenance of motorcycles, mopeds, all terrain vehicles (ATVs), snowmobiles, and similar vehicles. Instruction covers the repair and maintenance of engines, transmissions, drive trains, electrical systems, suspension systems, frames, brakes, tires, and wheels. Instruction also includes damage repair and refinishing.
5975 Principles of Technology
Principles of Technology is a course designed for students planning technical careers. It includes 14 units presented over two years. Each of the 14 units deals with one principle as it applies in the four energy systems (mechanical, fluid, thermal, and electrical) that provide power for both simple and complex technological devices and equipment. The units also cover the mathematics needed to understand and apply the principles. They focus on work, rate, resistance, energy, power, and force transformers. The second year of instruction covers momentum, waves and vibrations, energy converters, transducers, radiation, optical systems, and time constraints. These studies complete the program.
5661 Small Engine Repair
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as small engine mechanics. Instruction includes the maintenance and repair of small engines (e.g., lawn mowers, gardening equipment, chain saws, and recreation vehicles).
5675 Suspension and Steering
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as suspension and steering specialists. This specialty program includes instruction in steering systems diagnosis and repair; suspension systems diagnosis and repair; wheel alignment diagnosis, adjustment, and repair; and wheel and tire diagnosis and repair.
5970 Technology Core, Level 1
Principles of Technology is a course designed for students planning technical careers. It includes 14 units presented over two years. Each of the 14 units deals with one principle as it applies in the four energy systems (mechanical, fluid, thermal, and electrical) that provide power for both simple and complex technological devices and equipment. The units also cover the mathematics needed to understand and apply the principles. They focus on work, rate, resistance, energy, power, and force transformers. The second year of instruction covers momentum, waves and vibrations, energy converters, transducers, radiation, optical systems, and time constraints. These studies complete the program.
5972 Technology Core, Level 2
This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal problem-solving techniques. Integrated content continues to focus on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.
5672 Transmissions/Drive Trains, Combination
This instructional program prepares individuals as combination automatic and manual transmission/drive train specialists. This specialty program provides instruction in the combined skills of the separate automatic and manual transmission and drive train programs.
5662 Truck and Bus Driving
This instructional program prepares individuals for employment as truck and bus drivers. Instruction includes operation of gas, diesel, or electrically powered trucks and buses. Both classroom and hands-on instruction is provided in basic operation and handling of vehicles, operation and minor servicing of the vehicle's power and control systems, loading cargo or passengers, reporting delays or accidents, verifying loads against shipping papers, keeping records of receipts and fares, maintaining logs, and observing laws and regulations governing vehicle operations.
5665 Vehicle Maintenance, Service, and Repair
The Vehicle Maintenance, Service and Repair pathway prepares students for postsecondary education and employment in the transportation industry, which includes, but is not limited to, motor vehicles, rail systems, marine applications and outdoor power equipment.
5698 Other Power, Energy, and Transportation Course
This instructional program provides instruction in the power, energy, and transportation cluster in a manner not otherwise described in this listing.
