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Industrial Technology
The Industrial Technology Education program offers valuable learning experiences for all students. The classes are designed to provide students learning experiences that will give them knowledge of industry, occupations, life skills, and applications of basic skills. The entry level classes are exploratory in nature. Emphasis is on cooperative effort, career opportunities, safe and efficient work habits, quality work, and good stewardship of the environment. Students will develop an appreciation for diversity and the contribution of each person through collaborative effort. This is a good foundation for further education, training, or entry into the work force.
Students may choose a wide variety of classes or focus on one of the following career clusters::
1. Architecture and Construction
2. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
3. Manufacturing
4. Transportation, Distribution and Logistics
Any class in Industrial Technology Education can be used to meet the Applied Art Graduation Requirement, Applied Physics meets the Science Graduation Requirement.
The following courses may be used to meet Technology Graduation Requirements:
CAD Technical Design
CAD Engineering
CAD Architecture
Advanced CAD Architecture/Engineering
Digital Electronics
Foundations of Industrial Technology
MISSION STATEMENT
Industrial Technology prepares individuals through hands on experiences to comprehend information and make contributions to a society influenced by technology.
In The News
What do I teach in machine tool technology?
Gary Hinkley, Lincoln High machine tool technology instructor
October 2009
Well, on an elementary level I teach students to operate precision machining equipment safely and properly in order to manufacture assigned products, as well as projects of their own choosing. Sometimes that is all people see. However, what I really teach students to do is to see the world in a different way, and to respond
to mechanically related situations with a different perspective. After taking my machining class, kids understand the processes and procedures involved in making all the things we use in our daily lives. Everything we use was made by someone on a machine somewhere. From all the sophisticated to the mundane parts in an automobile or a computer or our homes, someone conceived of the idea, then made that idea manifest through manufacturing.
Students in machine tool are privy to that process. They practice the sequence of perceiving a need, conceiving of an idea for a solution to
that need, then making a real-world item to satisfy it. We build things. We invent, modify, repair, improve and create things. The ultimate goal is for students to look at the world with new eyes. -To internalize the notion that, If someone can do it, then it can be done. If it can be done, I can learn to do it, as well.
The world operates on many levels. One unavoidable level is the physical/mechanical realm. Unfortunately, many people are intimidated by things mechanical. Consequently, they are at the mercy of them. When the car, house, appliances, computer, phone or entertainment system present problems (and they all do, eventually), these folks have limited options. In most cases they must rely on someone else. -And this response works, to a degree. However, it presupposes that the repair person, sales person or expert is actually competent, honest and proceeds in the best interest of the hapless individual. There is a tremendous amount of satisfaction and empowerment in having enough mechanical knowledge to not only be able to assess the relative competency of the supposed professional, but to be able to accomplish many of the frequent repairs and modifications that we all encounter with mechanical things in our daily lives. Students in machine tool manufacturing are developing the sense to understand the mechanical realm. Although it may seem innate to the uninitiated, it is a skill that can be learned.
That is what students in machine tool do.
SANTA COPS PROJECT
This past Saturday the Industrial Technology teachers and lab facilities at LNE once again collaborated with the Lincoln HomeBuilders Association for their annual Santa Cop project. This annual event sponsored and built by local HBAL members and LPS-ITE teachers and their students mass manufacture homemade toys for children for needy families. This year the People In Need Center will be distributing the gifts. More exact details can be obtained from Nadine Condello, Exec Director of HBAL (nadine@hbal.org) along with many pictures of the event (including our LPS teachers and students). The following schools had LPS-ITE teachers and students participating: LNE - Bob Freese, Tony Koester, ITE students, Principal Kurt Glather and his son, and former LNE teacher Bob White; LNS - Charm Satree, Wayne Trevett, and their SkillsUSA students; East - Jeff McCabe and students; Carol Andringa, CTE-LPSDO District Office.
$5.4M in Software given to LPS
Design Data, a local computer software company, has donated $5.4 million in software to Lincoln Public Schools to help educate future structural designers and engineers. The 168 software licenses, which retail for $30,000 per work station, will be used in the industrial technology labs of the city's six high schools. The district designed curriculum with the help of Design Data and all six high schools started using the software this fall.
The HBAL Home and Garden Show Design Contest
The Home and Garden show was in February again this year. Student work was displayed for all the visitors of the show. .Jon Heithold is the HBAL design contest district contact person. High School students from all over Lincoln competed in this years design contest. The Residential design first place winner was Austin Mar of East High. The second place winner was Kevin Brodersen of East High, and the thrid place winner was Megan Kaltenberger of Southwest High School. Congratulations to all those that participated.
Residential Construction Partners
Neighborworks Lincoln and The Lincoln Housing Authority have been and continue to be partners with LPS in the construction of 2 student built homes. The provide an excellent relationship that allows students the opportunity to explore the residential construction industry first hand. Students are put into a realistic construction setting and allowed the time to develop their skills in residential construction.
