The document provides an overview of the ActionLAB program for students. It describes the program as consisting of 22 instructional units over 10 days, where students work in pairs on hands-on activities covering various topics delivered through online content. The document lists the topic areas covered in the program, including transportation, manufacturing, and bio-related fields. It also provides details on some of the specific instructional units, such as virtual architecture, structural engineering, and robotics technology.

1. Student Orientation
Day 1

2. What is the ActionLAB Program?
The ActionLAB program is a
technology education program
designed to teach you how to
use and manage technology

3. How does the program operate?
 Twenty-two 10-day Integrated Instructional
Units (also called units or IIUs)
 2 students work together on a unit
 Instruction is delivered on the computer
 Each unit contains audio, video, text and
pictures
 Each unit has hands-on, internet and writing
activities

4. What areas does ActionLABs cover?
Transportation
Communications
Manufacturing
Production
Bio-related

5. Here are the IIUs
we will be exploring

6. IIU Preferences
 Use the supplied worksheet to list your
5 unit preferences
 The computer system will try and give
you as many of your choices as
possible.

7. Virtual Architecture
 Identify and appropriately select tools commonly
used by architects, designers and homeowners for
designing structures.
 Determine suitable replacements for a conventional
residential exterior and use a computer program to
apply a chosen modification.
 Rate and use systems of graphic communication
and identify how CAD software fosters a common
graphic language.
 Create an original 3-D living, bed or bathroom using
the database of objects.
 Apply a variety of components of architectural 3-D
modeling, visualization and navigational tools in a
problem solving experience.
 Identify and describe the preparation and
requirements for careers related to architecture and
interior design.

8. Structural Engineering
 Identify and strength test different types of
beams and panels used in structures
 Appropriately use hand-held cutting tools and
safely operate a testing device
 Identify and classify the portion of a
structure’s frame under tension, torsion,
shear, and compression
 Demonstrate, predict, and evaluate the
behavior of loaded structural systems
 Identify, describe, and clarify the major
stresses and causes of structural failure on
spanning structures
 Describe preparation and requirements for
careers related to building structures

9. Robotics Technology
 Identify the characteristics of a variety of types and
sizes of robots
 Describe how artificial intelligence is applied to
robotic systems
 Identify, sketch and label all major parts of an
industrial robot
 Describe the basic components that allow an
operator to program robots
 Compare and contrast robotic applications in
medicine, industrial, and entertainment applications
 Set up and program an interactive robotics station

10. Research and Development
 Identify and define specifications and tolerances
and their required use in vehicle design.
 Produce a prototype following the
design/development rules
 Apply, appropriately use, and enforce safety
procedures when using tools and machines
 Define, demonstrate and use in application the laws
of aerodynamics and mass in order to maximize
vehicle performance.
 Design safety restraint and airbag systems and
destructively test for effectiveness.
 Use ‘crush zone’ engineering in a vehicular design
program and test for integrity.

11. Materials Processing
 Apply, appropriately use, and enforce safety
procedures when using tools and machines
 Determine the most suitable tool for each process in
the development of project work and problem solutions
 Identify the characteristics and select the most
appropriate materials for use in a variety of projects
 Describe the processes involved in manufacturing a
variety of products
 Apply technical vocabulary relating to a variety
material processing operations
 Design and complete the manufacture of a multi-
process and multi-material product

12. Energy and Power
 Identify and characterize the six main forms of energy
 Perform the conversion of different forms of energy into
power
 List and describe the careers relating to energy and power
 Identify and appropriately tools need to test, disassemble,
measure, and reassemble a small engine
 Describe the relationship of the main systems to the
components of a small internal combustion engine
 Determine the efficacy of alternative energy sources

13. Electricity
 Develop and describe electrical systems and their
components
 Describe the elements and concerns of electrical safety and
practices
 Use and apply electronic graphical symbols used in electrical
schematics
 Demonstrate a working knowledge of the proper use of an
electrical multi-meter
 Determine the interrelationship of electricity and magnetism
 Use Ohm's Law to calculate formulas pertaining to electrical
circuits

14. Computer Numerical Control
 Explore and identify the components of computer
numerical control systems and their application in
industry
 Use the Cartesian Coordinate and Polar Coordinate
measuring systems in application
 Write an original computer numerical control program to
manufacture a part
 Prepare a CNC machine for a manufacturing operation
 Recognize the use of, and work with the principles of
reverse engineering
 Discriminate and contrast and compare CAD and CAM
and their interrelationship

15. Computer Aided Drafting
 Define the use of CAD as a communication process
 Demonstrate the use of computer skills in the use of a
CAD software program
 Create a variety of drawings using a CAD software
program
 Identify the uses of CAD within manufacturing,
production and construction technologies
 Apply algebraic and geometric math skills to CAD
drawings
 Describe the design process for architectural and
mechanical drawing

16. Alternative Energy
 Gain an understanding of the current use of
energy and the resources now being expended
 Contrast and compare the environmental effects
of non-renewable and renewable energy sources
 Use mathematics in application to determine the
efficiency of wind powered energy sources
 Explore the science and chemistry of hydrogen
fuel cell powered vehicles
 Determine through experimentation the
efficiency of photo-voltaic energy sources
 Explore the careers associated with alternative
energy industries