IED is the first class in the Project Lead the Way Curriculum. This class is offered at both the local sending schools and the Jackson Area Career Center. It is much preferred that the class is taken at the sending school and can only be taken at JACC with teacher recommendation. The class covers the basics types of engineers, hands on projects, and use of Autodesk Inventor, a 3-D parametric modeling program. For more information please click the link below to be taken to the PLTW description. 

 

 

POE is the second class in the Project Lead the Way Curriculum. This class is offered at both the local sending schools and the Jackson Area Career Center. It is much preferred that the class is taken at the sending school and can only be taken at JACC with teacher recommendation. The class covers the types of simple machines, energy, statics, materials, kinematics, and programming. The students will work design small automated systems to complete tasks. 

 

DE is the third class in the Project Lead the Way Curriculum. This class is offered only at the Jackson Area Career Center during the first semester of class. The class covers combinational and sequential logic design, programming of microcontrollers, and technical documentation.
 

 

EDD is the capstone course that is offered second semester of the senior year at JACC. In this course the students shall work together in teams to develop and validate their own problem statement, research solutions to that problem, design a solution, build a prototype, test the prototype, put together a manufacturing plan, and present on their project to a group of local engineers.  

 

See the link below for more information on the Project Lead the Way Classes. 

 

http://www.edmodo.com