The Machining Fundamentals Technical Certificate is designed to equip graduates with the basic machining skills that will enable them to find entry-level positions in the machining and metal fabrication fields. Students will become acquainted with OSHA safety standards and NIMS (National Institute for Metalworking Skills) machining standards. Emphasis is placed on manual machining and basic CNC topics. This certificate combines theoretical principles and hands-on practical skills into a cohesive training curriculum which has been designed to meet the needs of local industries.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful program completion, the student will be able to:

1. demonstrate an ability to apply basic sketching techniques to communicate technical information
2. apply orthographic projection principles to generate basic working drawings using a CAD system
3. safely operate common metalworking machine tools                
4. explain cutting speeds and calculate spindle speeds and feed rates
5. demonstrate an ability to interpret working drawings containing orthographic, section, and auxiliary views      
6. demonstrate the ability to interpret dimensioned drawings
7. manually write, edit, debug, and use N/C programs to produce a part                 
8. utilize canned cycles, loops, and subroutines
9. list and define nine material properties
10. name and compare the three primary lattice structures of ferrous materials