There are seven Standards for Technology Education. They are as follows:
1. ENGINEERING DESIGN
Engineering design is an interactive process involving modeling and optimization used to develop technological solutions to problems within given constraints. Students explore, use, and process a variety of materials and energy sources to design and construct things.
2. TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS, MATERIALS AND MATERIALS
Technological tools, materials, and other resources should be selected on the basis of safety, cost, availability, appropriateness, and environmental impact; technological processes change energy, information, and material resources into more useful forms. Students develop basic skill in the use of hand tools.
3. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
Computers, as tools for design, modeling, information processing, communication, and system control, have greatly increased human productivity and knowledge. Students use the computer as a tool for produce various products across the grade levels.
4. TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Technological systems are designed to achieve specific results and produce outputs, such as products, structures, services, energy, or other systems product. Students investigate systems as they relate to their projects.
5. HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY
Technology has been the driving force in the evolution of society from an agricultural to an industrial to an information base. The students will investigate and report on inventions and innovations in technology throughout the history of mankind.
6. IMPACTS OF TECHNOLOGY
Technology can have positive and negative impacts on individuals, society, and the environment and humans have the capability and responsibility to constrain or promote technological development. As part of their invention report, the students will investigate and report on the impact of various inventions on society.
7. MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY
Project management is essential to ensuring that technological endeavors are profitable and that products and systems are of high quality and built safely, on schedule, and within budget. Students will have to design and construct several projects that require time management skills as well as the safe operation of tools and equipment.