a comprehensive, experience-based education program concerned with the evolution, utilization, and significance of technology to the economy and environment, and its impact on industry, including its organization, personnel, systems, techniques, resources, products, and social and cultural aspects; important are the hands-on investigative, design-and-build, technical problem solving teaching approaches, and the integration of mathematics, science, and language arts concepts used in the study of communication technology, physical technology (manufacturing, construction, energy/power, and transportation), and bio-related technology systems content.