La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § LXXXI-3313

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section LXXXI-3313 - Transportation Systems

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

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § LXXXI-3313

Promulgated by the Department of Education, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Career and Technical Education, LR 30:2743 (December 2004).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 6:(A)(10) and R.S. 17:10.