CTE courses and programs is important to have and be rigorous, competitive, motivating, engaging, relevant and authentic but it also should have teamwork, cooperation, sometimes be exciting. It is important to connect local issues to STEM courses, since it will help draw connections to global issues. You should start small and then later you can incorporate global issues by using an already existing project and add a global aspect to it or create a new project entirely that helps solve these issues. 

Having ethics and morals is important throughout society and even as a engineer, however sometimes society dictates these ethics or morals even if you are right or wrong. I believe given the situation if it calls for extreme measures to not disregard your morals or ethics as it plays a big role in what type of engineer you are aiming to be. There are many types of situations where it is considered justified to throw away these ethics or morals, but does it mean you are doing the right thing. Like creating a nuclear bomb to end the war quicker,… >>>