I had 9 years of drafting including junior high, high school and college. I could have been a drafting teacher. I fell into the Power tech thing.
It pains me that most Industrial Arts shops in schools are gone. I visited the high school in which I taught in 1995 (20 years after leaving) and was very disappointed. The metal shop was still there, but un-used, the power lab had been converted to a weight room for the football team. It was a joke! The same textbooks that I used in 1974 were sitting on a shelf at the back of the room. When I was arrived there in '71 all they had were lawn mower engines. That was the entire program. They had a hydraulics training unit, but it had never been used.
When I left we had a diesel, gas turbine (from a Naval engine start cart), 3 V-8s, and a Mercedes straight 6. We took field trips, learned about jet engines, and on and on. When I left the program died and then became a weight room. What a waste. The minds of people in administration were much too small.
The world needs engineers and people conversant with technology as much today as they did in 1974. Today, when kids study technology it's basically robotics; Lego robotics, as if that's the only kind of machinery in use on this planet. It's the reason we're falling behind in manufacturing...there's no one that knows how to do it coming up through the ranks.
