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MTEL Technology and Engineering Test Breakdown

Communication has five subareas with a total of 16 to 18 questions.

1. Technology Industries: types, composition, functions, trends, career opportunities, educational/training requirements, markets and material, and service providers.
2. Resources: properties and the selection and use of various materials, tools and equipment, and related safety issues.
3. Graphic Arts and Electronic Publishing: principles, processes and procedures, graphic design, image generation, production, binding and finishing, and using computers.
4. Design and Drafting: principles, processes and procedures, sketches and drawings, designing, producing and interpreting technical drawings and three-dimensional models, and the use of computers and software.
5. Electronic Communication: principles, processes and procedures, basic electronics, electronic and telecommunication systems, broadcast systems, and the capabilities of various technologies.

Production has four subareas with a total of 13 to 15 questions.

1. Technology Industries: types, composition, functions, trends, career opportunities, educational/training requirements, markets and material, and service providers.
2. Resources: properties and the selection and use of various materials, tools and equipment ,and related safety issues.
3. Construction: principles, processes and procedures used in building various types of structures, legal requirements and construction documents, problems in systems, and applications and modifications.
4. Manufacturing: principles, processes and procedures, types and characteristics of manufacturing systems and processes and their capabilities, quality control, operations, and the financial impact of operational and line decisions.

Power, Energy and Transportation has four subareas with a total of 13 to 15 questions.

1. Technology Industries: types, composition, functions, trends, career opportunities, educational/training requirements, markets and material, and service providers.
2. Resources: properties and the selection and use of various materials, tools and equipment, and related safety issues.
3. Energy: generation, transformation, transmission, control, storage, efficiency and loss, scientific principles, processes and equipment, and conversions between electrical, mechanical, chemical and nuclear forms of energy.
4. Transportation Technology: principles, processes and equipment, components of land, air and sea systems, technological problems, and methods to decide how to apply and modify processes and procedures when necessary.

Technology has 10 subareas with a total of 34 to 36 questions.

1. Career Opportunities: characteristics, educational requirements, working conditions and responsibilities, looking for work, professional organizations and the importance of social and leadership skills and taking pride in one’s quality of work.
2. Environmental and Safety Issues: procedures for using tools and equipment and disposing of materials properly, recognizing hazards and dangerous situations, importance of safety instructions in the workplace, and responsible personal safety.
3. Independent and Integrated Systems: the systems approach and how they work, common interrelationships between systems and procedures for setting and meeting specifications.
4. Multimedia Communication: principles, processes, procedures and capabilities, and planning and designing products to teach, inform or sell.
5. New and Emerging Technologies: capabilities and scientific principles behind them, information sources, and potential uses.
6. Interrelationship Between Technology, Science and Mathematics: flow of information, analysis of technical systems using math and science, and the influence of technology on science and math.
7. Technology and Society: political, economic and social trends, its history and global impact, ethical issues and the role of business, government, society, and the individual
8. Interdisciplinary Nature of Technology Education: value of an integrated approach to understand and solve real-world problems.
9. Engineering Technology: principles, processes and procedures of design, technology, physics, chemistry and electronics, and basics of the math used to solve problems.
10. Solving Technology Problems: identifying and describing problems, proposing designs and choosing, evaluating and redesigning solutions as necessary, and methods to communicate the entire process.

MTEL Technology and Engineering Test Practice Questions