VALENCIA HIGH ENGINEERING CAREER PLAN.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Much like advanced biology and physiology classes introduce high school students to a career in the sciences, Valencia High School Valencia High School may refer to:
The William S William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack . Hart Union High School District, mindful of a shortage of highly skilled technology workers, looked into a pre-engineering technology curriculum three years ago, interested in adding project-based classes to its high schools. ``We believe in students learning in context,'' said Rita Thomas, administrator of the district's career development and work force preparation. ``And the manufacturing community told us they are in dire need of engineers hoping we do something, so we wanted to create interest in engineering.'' Now, with the board's approval last week of Project Lead the Way, Valencia High will train one of its instructors and implement the curriculum in the fall semester se·mes·ter n. One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year. [German, from Latin (cursus) s of 2002. The high school curriculum consists of five two-semester courses focusing on introduction into engineering design, digital electronics, principles of engineering, computer-integrated manufacturing computer-integrated manufacturing Data-driven automation that affects all systems or subsystems within a manufacturing environment: design and development, production (see CAD/CAM), marketing and sales, and field support and service. and engineering design and development. The district hopes that by working with the College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. , it will be able to give students college credit for courses taken at Valencia High. ``The purpose is to get students interested in engineering and engineering technology, and the reason we want to introduce it to them early is because a lot who get interested in college drop out,'' Thomas said. ``If we exposed engineering to them early, students are less likely to drop out.'' In 1998, just 3 percent of the nation's 1.6 million college freshmen were pursuing majors in computer science, and 60 percent of those who are accepted into engineering programs do not complete them. To compound the shortage of engineers, the majority of graduates study liberal arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. while the majority of available jobs are in technology-related fields. There are currently more than 250 schools in the nation using the pre- engineering program. If the pilot is successful, the program may be implemented at Golden Valley High School. |
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