HVCHS Technology, Engineering and Automotive Elective Information

This site is intended to suplement the course catalog offered to our students by the guidance department.  Students wishing to know a little bit more about each course should scroll through their options here, look at the pictures and read the descriptions.  Please email [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected], [email protected] or  [email protected] more information.  Thanks for visiting!

 

Woodworking Courses

 

Introduction to Furniture Design and Construction-

   This course is open to all students looking to take a Practical Arts elective, there are no prerequisites.  Nearly every student who takes this course enjoys it thoroughly and many enroll in the other woodworking courses in the sequence when they are done this one.  Students in Intro to Furniture Design will work on four projects throughout the year, each one increasing in complexity.  They will bring home a game or toy from a classwide mass production project, a wooden toolbox that they've built by hand, a face frame cabinet with raise panel door, and an independent project of their own choosing.  This course is hands on with the tools but there is no expectation that any student comes into the course with experience. All safety and procedures will be taught. 

 

Furniture Design and Construction-

Enrollment in this course requires each student to have passed Intro to Furniture Design with a strong score previously. Students in this higher-level woodworking course spend time reviewing the machines at the beginning of the year and then pick an independent project to take them through the entire school year. Project ideas include tables, chairs, desks, dressers, chairs, musical instruments, small boats, jewelry boxes, complex cutting boards and jewelry boxes, and many, many others. Students take away a lifelong heirloom from their work in this class and every student finds the process satisfying and rewarding.  

 

Advanced Furniture Design and Construction-

This is the third level of woodworking courses, which means students must have passed both Intro AND Furniture Design and Construction with a strong score to enroll. This course is similar to the Furniture Design and Construction but as level 3 students the requirements for the project become larger and more complex.  

 

Fine Woodworking-

This fourth year course is for the school's most elite craftspeople. Students enrolled must have previously been successful in all of the other woodworking course offerings. 

 

Engineering/Architecture Courses

 

Introduction to Engineering Design-

 

Principles of Engineering-

 

Aerospace Engineering-

 

Computer Integrated Manufacturing-

 

Engineering, Design and Development-

 

 

Life Skills

 

Home Survival-

 

Graphic Design Courses

 

Graphics I-

 

Graphics II-

Automotive Courses

 

Small Engine Rebuild and Repair-

 

Basic Auto-

 

Auto Tech- (Mercer County Votech)-