Texas Administrative Code › Title 19 - EDUCATION › Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY › Chapter 130 - TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION › Subchapter P - TRANSPORTATION, DISTRIBUTION, AND LOGISTICS › Section 130.451 - Advanced Transportation Systems Laboratory (One Credit)

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) General requirements. This course is
				  recommended for students in Grades 11 and 12 as a corequisite course for
				  students participating in a coherent sequence of career and technical education
				  courses in the Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics Career Cluster. This
				  course provides an enhancement opportunity for students to develop the
				  additional skills necessary to pursue industry certification. Recommended
				  prerequisite: a minimum of one credit from the courses in the Transportation,
				  Distribution, and Logistics Career Cluster. Corequisites: Automotive Technology
				  II: Automotive Services, Diesel Equipment Technology II, Collision Repair,
				  Paint and Refinishing, Aircraft Airframe Technology, or Aircraft Powerplant
				  Technology. This course must be taken concurrently with a corequisite course
				  and may not be taken as a stand-alone course. Districts are encouraged to offer
				  this lab in a consecutive block with the corequisite course to allow students
				  sufficient time to master the content of both courses. Students shall be
				  awarded one credit for successful completion of this course.
(b) Introduction.
(1) Career and technical education
				  instruction provides content aligned with challenging academic standards and
				  relevant technical knowledge and skills for students to further their education
				  and succeed in current or emerging professions.
(2) The Transportation, Distribution, and
				  Logistics Career Cluster focuses on planning, management, and movement of
				  people, materials, and goods by road, pipeline, air, rail, and water and
				  related professional support services such as transportation infrastructure
				  planning and management, logistics services, mobile equipment, and facility
				  maintenance.
(3) Advanced
				  Transportation Systems Laboratory provides the opportunity to extend knowledge
				  of the major transportation systems and the principles of diagnosing and
				  servicing these systems. Topics in this course may include alternative fuels
				  such as hybrid, bio diesel, hydrogen, compressed natural gas (CNG), liquidized
				  natural gas (LNG), propane, and solar; total electric vehicles and power
				  trains; advanced transportation systems such as collision avoidance,
				  telematics, vehicle stability control, navigation, vehicle-to-vehicle
				  communications; and other technologies. This study will allow students to have
				  an increased understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
				  in all aspects of these systems. This will reinforce, apply, and transfer
				  academic knowledge and skills to a variety of relevant activities, problems,
				  and settings.
(4) Students are
				  encouraged to participate in extended learning experiences such as career and
				  technical student organizations and other leadership or extracurricular
				  organizations.
(5) Statements that
				  contain the word "including" reference content that must be mastered, while
				  those containing the phrase "such as" are intended as possible illustrative
				  examples.