Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Three Levels

Standard 5-Technology - Commencement

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Management of Technology

7. 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:

     develop and use computer-based scheduling and project tracking tools, such as flow charts and graphs.
     explain how statistical process control helps to assure high quality output.
     discuss the role technology has played in the operation of successful U.S. businesses and under what circumstances they are competitive with other countries.
     explain how technological inventions and innovations stimulate economic competitiveness and how, in order for an innovation to lead to commercial success, it must be translated into products and services with marketplace demand.
     describe new management techniques (e.g., computer-aided engineering, computer-integrated manufacturing, total quality management, just-in-time manufacturing), incorporate some of these in a technological endeavor, and explain how they have reduced the length of design-to- manufacture cycles, resulted in more flexible factories, and improved quality and customer satisfaction.
     help to manage a group engaged in planning, designing, implementation, and evaluation of a project to gain understanding of the management dynamics.

This is evident, for example, when students:

     design and carry out a plan to create a computer-based information system that could be used to help manage a manufacturing system (e.g., monitoring inventory, measurement of production rate, development of a safety signal).
     identify several successful companies and explain the reasons for their commercial success.
     organize and implement an innovative project, based on market research, that involves design, production, testing, marketing, and sales of a product or a service.