Wiktionary
n. 1 The practical arts, such as engineering, metalworking or carpentry. 2 the teaching of the knowledge and skills needed to work with tools and machinery
WordNet
n. a course in the methods of using tools and machinery as taught in secondary schools and technical schools
Wikipedia
Industrial Arts is an educational program which features fabrication of objects in wood or metal using a variety of hand, power, or machine tools. It may include small engine repair and automobile maintenance, and all programs usually cover technical drawing as part of the curricula. As an educational term, industrial arts dates from 1904 when Charles R. Richards of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York suggested it to replace manual training.
In the United States Industrial Arts classes are colloquially known as "shop class"; these programs expose children to the basics of home repair, manual craftsmanship, and machine safety. Most Industrial Arts programs were established in comprehensive rather than dedicated vocational schools and focused on a broad range of skills rather than on a specific vocational training.
In Victoria (VIC, Australia) Industrial Arts is still a key part of the high school curriculum. The term now describes a key study of technology that focuses on both engineering and industrial technologies. Additionally, design using the aforementioned technologies is now a key part of the Industrial Arts curriculum and has been since the mid-1980s when Technics was introduced into Victorian high schools.
One of the most important aspects of Industrial Arts is still that while students design they ultimately realize a solution; learning the challenges involved with working with materials and also the challenges of small scale project management.
Some universities have doctoral programs in the Industrial Arts.
Usage examples of "industrial arts".
Before the Ring of Fire, he taught industrial arts at the high school in Fairmont.
The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.
In views of classes devoted to industrial arts, home ec, and world science, students were clumped together pointing at wall maps or gathered around the teacher's desk, smiling and pretending to look interested.
Hulking boys whose names and even faces were unfamiliar of us, whose yearbook captions would consist of a single terse line, Major, Industrial Arts, rushed out of Mr.
With a few low-voiced phrases, he could have made clear the relationship between Vraimont Industrial Arts and the opportunities implicit in being the Colonial Affairs Minister.
Roebuck's inquiries had an almost exclusively practical direction, and in pursuing them his main object was to render them subservient to the improvement of the industrial arts.
The teachers had been photographed against a varied background of maps, industrial arts equipment, textbooks, and blackboards on which phrases had.
Perhaps my grandfather was just nuts, I should have taken up the industrial arts, become an arc welder.