In Austria, the syllabus for "Technisches Werken/Crafts and Technology" for all types of school in general education was issued more than 30 years ago. The authors believed that it might lay the foundations for technical literacy. The paper is about how the situation of the subject and, with it, technical education has developed since…

Paper is concerned with a UNESCO project, intended to apply the methods of correspondence teaching to newly literate and semi-literate workers and to raise them to a sufficient level to begin technical training. (Author)

This project validated the competencies and curriculum for telecommunications technology programs and specified a generic curriculum design/structure that could be useful to community colleges and technical institutes that are beginning or revising their curricula. The project took advantage of and built upon the first program development work…

This technical specialty course is one of thirty-five courses designed for use by two-year postsecondary institutions in five nuclear technician curriculum areas: (1) radiation protection technician, (2) nuclear instrumentation and control technician, (3) nuclear materials processing technician, (4) nuclear quality-assurance/quality-control…

Designed for use with thirty-five technical specialty courses included in the Nuclear Technology Series, this master index merges all index entries from the thirty-five courses. The index lists for each entry the course and module numbers (underlined), followed by the page number. Figures and tables, when included, are listed by their numbers,…

To assist States in implementing Highway Safety Program Standard 18, "Accident Investigation and Reporting", the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration funded an instructor training program for a new occupational field in highway safety, accident investigation technician. The Center for Vocational and Technical Education executed this…

This document defines "photonics" as the generation, manipulation, transport, detection, and use of light information and energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communication and information processing. Photonics is at the heart of today's…

This curriculum guide was developed as a result of a project conducted in Pennsylvania to review, update, and revise the vocational-technical curriculum for cardiovascular technologists. The guide is organized in five sections. The first section describes the project, while the second section lists the minimum essentials for a cardiovascular…

The purpose of the Photoinstrumentation Technology Program is to train technicians in creative design and implementation of high-speed and other scientific photographic recordings. The curriculum was designed to provide technicians without the A.S. degree with the opportunity to acquire the educational background necessary for salary advance and…

The Library Technician Program of community colleges has been endorsed by the American Library Association (ALA). The ALA's definition of a library Technical Assistant is "a person with certain specifically library-related skills--in preliminary bibliographic searching, for example, or utilization of certain mechanical equipment--the…

This guide identifies technicians, states specific job requirements, and describes special problems in defining, initiating, and operating post-high school programs in data processing technology. The following are discussed: (1) the program (employment opportunities, the technician, work performed by data processing personnel, the faculty, student…

A project was conducted at the Community College of Luzerne County (Pennsylvania) to develop, in cooperation with area vocational-technical schools, the first year of a competency-based curriculum in laser/electro-optics technology. Existing programs were reviewed and private sector input was sought in developing the curriculum and identifying…

This curriculum guide contains lecture outlines and handouts for training solar technicians in the installation, maintenance, and repair of solar energy hot water and space heating systems. The curriculum consists of four modular units developed to provide a model through which community colleges and area vocational/technical schools can respond…

To identify environmental technician positions in the public and private sectors of the San Francisco Bay Area as well as to determine the skills and knowledge necessary for employment in the field, questionnaires were distributed to companies, agencies, individuals of the private sector in the area, and 33 institutions offering an Occupational…

This document contains the report of a project conducted to make the concept of a world-class work force a reality. The project was intended to design a comprehensive strategy to link elements from the state's existing vocational-technical education, job training, adult education, tech prep, and apprenticeship programs with the components of SCANS…