Standards - Career & Technical Education

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces..

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Demonstrate and apply safety rules, regulations, routine care, and preventive maintenance of computer numerical control machines.

Demonstrate complex computer numerical control programming skills using G and M codes and correct speed and feed codes to write computer numerical control milling programs for straight, angle, radii, and circular cuts.

Set up and machine a part according to specifications of a blueprint.

Interpret and demonstrate complex G code programs for CNC milling, including using a fourth axis for machining of shaft grooves or locking slots or rings.

Demonstrate proper setup of computer numerical control machines, including home setup and tool setup.

Describe and illustrate common problems and solutions with tooling and fixtures in CNC programming and machining.

Identify differences in setup, operation, and uses of two-, three-, four-, and five-axis CNC lathes.