Trades and Manufacturing

Bring your coveralls! If you want to learn the basic techniques to auto body repairs and painting, you'll love this class. You will learn about auto body shop safety and tools, welding for repairs, body filler application, rust replacement, primers, painting, color sanding and polishing. This is a hands-on class. If cars are your hobby--or your passion--this class is for you!

Auto CAD 2011 – 45 hours
AutoCAD is the leading program for computer-aided design throughout the world. It is an essential tool in many industries, including mechanical and civil engineering, architecture, facilities planning and management. More employers use it, and need workers skilled in it, than any other CAD system. This course takes a step-by-step approach to learning AutoCAD, and you will learn to create and edit simple drawings; utilize 2D drawing and editing tools; create objects, lines, circles, and figures; and edit, modify, stretch, size, and scale your drawings.

Drafting Fundamentals – 45 hours
Introduction to board drafting including techniques, lettering, multi-view drawing, dimensioning, sectional views, auxiliary views, pattern development, models, and more. This course will put you at a definite advantage when you later attend drafting software classes such as AutoCAD, Solid Works, Revit, etc. Important concepts delivered in this class help you understand what your drafting software is designed to do and why!

Revit 2011 – 24 hours
Revit Architecture 2011 is a powerful parametric 3D modeling program for designing buildings. In this Revit course, you will learn everything you need in order to effectively work with Revit, including but not limited to: Revit Fundamentals, the principles and Toolbox; Configuring Templates; Managing a Revit Project; Interoperability; Modeling and Massing for Design; Extended Modeling Techniques; Documenting Your Design; and more.

Solid Works – 30 hours
This exciting software is revolutionizing manufacturing around the world--improving quality, reducing costs, and speeding the product-to-market pace. If you are moving from AutoCAD or other 2D software into Solid Works, you will find this software easy to learn, affordable, and fun! In this 30-hour class, you will be introduced to: Part Modeling, sketching techniques, patterning, editing parts, assemblies, configurations, and more. Students will sketch out ideas, experiment with features and dimensions, and produce 3D models and detailed drawings from existing 2D data. This class is designed for manufacturing professionals, such as: mechanical designer/drafter, mechanical engineer, quality control technician, manufacturing engineer/technician, manufacturing project planner/manager, production manager, CNC operator, architect, industrial designer, mechanical engineer, drafter, machinist, or welder/fabrication specialist who have a good working knowledge of computers and experience in design, drafting, engineering, etc.

Tools, machines, measurements, safety--there is a lot to know when working in a machine shop area. In this class, new-to-shop participants will be introduced to: Shop safety practices; Use of precision measurement tools; Machinery--lathes, milling machines, grinders, drill presses, and saws. The class includes classroom lecture/theory and hands-on training in the lab. Get tool list when registering.

This is a 4-year apprenticeship program related to manufacturing and industrial maintenance. Participants in the program should be employed in the field of plant maintenance or interested in the field as a career. Graduates who complete both the classroom and on-the-job training will receive a certificate from the U. S. Department of Labor, Office of Apprenticeship. This certificate is recognized nationally.

Year One (Total Level Hours: 195; includes 72.5 of Core Curriculum)

• Orientation to the Trade (2.5 Hours)
• Tools of the Trade (5 Hours)
• Fasteners and Anchors (5 Hours)
• Oxyfuel Cutting (17.5 Hours)
• Gaskets and Packing (10 Hours)
• Craft-Related Mathematics (15 Hours)
• Construction Drawings (12.5 Hours)
• Pumps and Drivers (5 Hours)
• Valves (5 Hours)
• Introduction to Test Instruments (7.5 Hours)
• Material Handling and Hand Rigging (15 Hours)
• Mobile and Support Equipment (10 Hours)
• Lubrication (12.5 Hours)

Year Two (Total Level Hours: 160)

• Basic Layout (20 Hours)
• Introduction to Piping Components (5 Hours)
• Copper and Plastic Piping Practices (5 Hours)
• Introduction to Ferrous Metal Piping Practices (5 Hours)
• Identify, Install, and Maintain Valves (10 Hours)
• Hydrostatic and Pneumatic Testing (10 Hours)
• Introduction to Bearings (15 Hours)
• Low-Pressure Steam Systems (10 Hours)
• High-Pressure Steam Systems and Auxiliaries (20 Hours)
• Distillation Towers and Vessels (20 Hours)
• Heaters, Furnaces, Heat Exchangers, Cooling Towers, and Fin Fans (30 Hours)
• Introduction to Tube Work (10 Hours)

Year Three (Total Level Hours: 175; 155 required, 20 Elective/ Optional)

• Advanced Trade Math (30 Hours)
• Precision Measuring Tools (20 Hours)
• Installing Bearings (20 Hours)
• Installing Couplings (15 Hours)
• Setting Baseplates and Prealignment (30 Hours)
• Conventional Alignment (20 Hours)
• Installing Belt and Chain Drives (10 Hours)
• Installing Mechanical Seals (20 Elective Hours)

Year Four (Total Level Hours: 170)

• Preventive and Predictive Maintenance (10 Hours)
• Advanced Blueprint Reading (25 Hours)
• Compressors and Pneumatic Systems (35 Hours)
• Reverse Alignment (30 Hours)
• Laser Alignment (25 Hours) Intr
• oduction to Supervisory Skills (15 Hours)
• Troubleshooting and Repairing Pumps (10 Hours)
• Troubleshooting and Repairing Gearboxes (20 Hours)

Hydraulics - Basic Fluid Power Applications – 45 hours
Complex, fluid-powered manufacturing equipment requires a technician who is proficient in maintaining, repairing, and troubleshooting. This course concentrates on basic hydraulics, proving exposure to pumps, motors, direction control valves, flow controls, pressure controls, filtration devices, actuators, advanced circuits/components, and symbols with a focus on maintenance of industrial hydraulic systems.

Electronics Technician Certification - CET Exam Prep
In this correspondence/online class, students will review the basic concepts typically taught in a 2-year Electronics Technician program in order to prepare for the Certified Electronics Technician Examination (CET Exam). It is recommended you have either completed a 2-year electronics program or have equivalent work experience. NOTE: This is an online class, open-entry/open-exit. Enroll any time and work at your own pace! You may take up to 8 weeks to complete this exam prep study course.

Programmable Logic Controllers I – Basics: 6 hours
Learn the history, makeup, and capabilities of PLC's and why they are used for many industrial applications. Learn to wire the PLC inputs for sourcing and/or sinking and learn to wire relay-type outputs to output various voltages.

Programmable Logic Controllers II - RS-Logix
Software: 6 hours
Learn how to understand and interpret ladder logic. You will perform program scanning, be able to use Rockwell R-S Logix's software, and write simple bit-level programming as well as create a start-stop program.

Programmable Logic Controllers III - Mid-Level
Programming: 6 hours
Create real application programs from scratch. You will program Allen-Bradley PLC's using R-S Logix Software. Instruction groups include timers and counters.

Programmable Logic Controllers IV - Advanced
Programming: 6 hours
Want to use the most advanced instructions used in industry? Finish your Allen-Bradley training using data handling, math, comparison, and subroutine instruction groups.

You will be trained to set up, operate, and take down welding equipment using appropriate safety procedures. Welding tool list available, bring list to first night of class, teacher will specify tools needed. Text provided.

Welding Certification – 16 hours
If you need to certify in a welding process, this is an opportunity for you to do just that. Plus, you will have time to familiarize yourself with the test equipment and practice your skill before the actual weld test performance. Your tester is a Certified Welding Inspector who will issue your official certification. This fee includes up to two days of prep and practice and one certification. Additional certifications offered at an additional reduced fee.

Welding - Stick – 48 hours
For the beginning or the experienced welder, this course provides individualized instruction geared toward your own welding capabilities. You'll be introduced to the electric arc welding process that produces coalescence of metals by heating them with an arc between a covered consumable metal electrode and the work. This process allows you to weld thin and thick steels and some nonferrous metals in all positions.

Welding - Gas Metal Arc (GMAW) – 48 hours
Or you can focus on GMAW, where the electric arc is established between the workpiece and a consumable bare wire electrode. Also known as wire feed welding, this is a process commonly used in all positions and on all commercially important metals.

Welding - Gas Tungsten Arc or heliarc (TIG) – 48 hours
Commonly used on thin metals and for the root passes on carbon, alloy, tubing and pipe. This class will provide the beginner or the experienced welder individualized instruction geared toward your own welding capabilities. You will be introduced to the latest technologies in the welding industry, be trained to set up, operate, and take down welding equipment, use appropriate safety procedures, and apply the processes to TIG weld. Bring welding tool list to first night of class, the instructor will specify tools needed. Text will be provided.