Career Cluster: Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering
The Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Career Cluster combines cutting-edge technologies and practices to improve design and production. Students prepare for careers in engineering, research and development, automation and AI, equipment maintenance, safety management, and quality control.
Learning Plans
Robots Wanted!
Students explore fruit and vegetable farms to understand the labor involved, research farm economics and plant life cycles, and examine ways mechanization or robotics can reduce manual work. They present their findings to an agricultural engineer to begin developing solutions to labor shortages.
Tool-Up Tech: First Aid for the Backcountry
Students use the engineering design process to create a first aid device that stabilizes backcountry injuries until medical help is available, incorporating composite materials in their design.
Water Ops for Growing
Students design and create a smart watering system for a small herb garden.
Cord Mess
Students work in teams to design a product or process that solves the problem of tangled electronic device cords, developing what they see as the best solution within available time and materials.
Let’s Glow!
Students explore simple circuits and sewing techniques while designing and making a custom “smart” stuffed animal.
Water Purification: Clean and Pure
Students work to develop a system of filtering water when faced with a natural disaster or a boil order in their own home.
Where’s My Pencil?
How many times have you heard, “I lost my pencil?” In this lesson, students work in teams to design, manufacture, and market a product using a 3-D printer to customize a student’s pencil. This will enable and motivate students to more easily keep track of their pencils.