Note: This program is currently being reviewed and is not accepting applications.

Technology Education

Graduates of the Technology Education degree program are certified to teach technology education from grades K through 12. Technology education is the laboratory-based discipline that is evolving from industrial arts education, in which students learn about technology and society, and technological systems including production, construction, transportation, information/communications, energy and power, agricultural and related bio-technological, and medical technologies.

Technology education teachers teach in general laboratories or in laboratories oriented to particular technological areas such as production, energy/power, or information/communications. General programs are taught in middle/junior high schools while more focused programs are common at the high school level.

Program Requirements

Core Curriculum - 31 credits

Basic Competency - 9 credits
ENG 100C English Competency
Pre-Calculus (or above)
Reasoning

Fine Arts - 6 credits (courses from a different department)
Performance Centered
History Centered

Humanities - 6 credits (courses from a different prefixes)
Literature
Other Times/Other Culture

Social Sciences - 6 credits (courses from a different department)
HRD 200J Human Growth & Dev.

Natural Sciences - 4 credits (with Lab)
Physics

Writing Intensive
ITP 210 Technical Writing

Departmental Requirements - 12 credits

Science/Math - 12 credits
Applied Calculus (or above)
Statistics
Computers
Physics OR Chemistry

General Electives - 9 credits

Professional - 27 credits
ATE 312 Teaching Students W/Special Needs
EDU 100 Experience Teaching as a Profession
ITP 210 Technical Writing
ITS 320 Occupational Safety & Health
ATE 380 Curriculum Development
ATE 381 Methods & Materials of Instruction
EDU 324 Student Teaching

Technical - 45 credits

Required - 42 credits
ITT 102 Technology and Society
ITT 103 Materials Property & Testing
ITT 181 Introduction to Computers
ITT 221 Power & Energy Processing
ITT 231 Technical Graphics
ITT 241 Graphic Communications
ITT 252 Material Processing
ITT 282 Computer Aided Design
ITT 323 Fluid Power
ITT 353 Automated Mat. Processing
ITT 362 Construction/Transportation Tech.
ITT 425 Electronic Control Tech.
TCE 383 Practicum I
TCE 483 Practicum II

Technical Electives - 3 Credits

Undergraduate Degrees & Minors:

Industrial Technology

Industrial Management
Precision Manufacturing
Electro-mechanical Systems
Information & Communications Technolgy
Construction Management (Degree)
Construction Management (Certificate)

Applied Technical Leadership

Minors in Industrial Technology

School of Applied Science, Engineering, & Technology

References

Fall 08 Course Schedule

Early Student Success WebSite

DOT Writing Manual

Research & Scholarship

University of Southern Maine Department of Technolgoy
211 John Mitchell Center, Gorham, Maine 04038
Phone: 207-780-5440 Fax: 207-780-5129