CTE: Advanced Manufacturing – SPARK

Module 1: Enhancing with Peripherals
In this module, learners explore how products are designed and redesigned to meet the needs and wants of users. Watch your students engage with the Engineering Design Process, discover the importance of measurement in creating prototypes, and consider how the materials you choose affect the product outcome and the environment. Then, students will use their newfound knowledge to enhance a product in their community!

Module 2: Cultivating the Digital Thread
In this module, students explore design constraints, considerations, and expectations in the manufacturing industry. Their final challenge is to reverse engineer an existing advanced manufacturing product and create a conceptual Technical Data Package.

Module 3: Fabricating Composite Materials
From the mundane to the extraordinary, many objects made using advanced manufacturing processes are composite products. Movie props are often especially creative composite products that contain a multitude of components and materials. In Fabricating Composite Products, students will examine movie props, learn how they are made, and fabricate a prototype composite product of their own!

Module 4: Monitoring Production & Quality
What is the lifecycle of a product, and how can it be analyzed and improved to protect human health, the environment, and sustainable economic practices? Using Industry 4.0 technologies to optimize production processes is essential for a brighter future on this planet — and beyond. Students apply their knowledge to revise an existing product for use in colonizing the Moon and/or Mars.