2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 03, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Machining, TC


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This program provides students the practical and general education experiences needed to enter the machine trades profession.

Job Opportunities

Metal Finisher • CNC Machinist • CNC Operator • Quality Inspector

Certifications

National Institute for Metal Working Skills (NIMS) • Manufacturing Skills Standards Council (MSSC)

Salary Expectations

To find current average salaries for Machine Tool/CNC occupations, visit: Home : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov).

Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Recognize safety hazards and potential safety issues and apply safe work practices and procedures in accordance with OSHA standards to safely handle tools, personal protective equipment, and a variety of materials used in manufacturing.
  2. Apply mathematical and geometrical concepts and procedures to measure basic manufacturing shapes using metric units.
  3. Communicate effectively, through both written and verbal form, in workplace scenarios using appropriate technical information within cultural and professional relationship contexts.
  4. Analyze a product for the purposes of the following: identifying the manufacturing process used; identifying similar products that could be manufactured from the same process; identifying the type of materials used; and to conduct reverse engineering processes.
  5. Apply accurate design methodology and use industry-standard software and machining tools to improve quality and production.
  6. Apply industry-standard techniques and the principals of quality control and management to manufacturing processes based on analysis of manufacturing requirements and given the end use of the product and operating conditions.
  7. Program, integrate, maintain, and troubleshoot robots and robotics systems for industrial applications.
  8. Select industrial programs and integrate devices to create automated systems.
  9. Apply the operation, wiring, control of motors, drives, and hydraulic/pneumatic/photonics systems to automated and robotic manufacturing processes.

General Education Courses


Complete all 6 Hours

Total 34 Credit Hours


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