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.

Apply safety rules, regulations, and procedures for maintaining and using CAD-CAM equipment.

Program software to perform CAD-CAM applications.

Demonstrate file management techniques with the CAM program, including creating a folder, saving a file to an existing folder, and retrieving and editing a file.

Use trigonometric ratios sine, cosine, tangent, and their inverses to solve various angles, lengths, and distance values for right triangles.

Use and apply appropriate decimal rounding of trigonometric ratios to solve problems in design or drafting.

Create a two-dimensional design and a two-dimensional numeric control operation tool path for a mill or a lathe, including features that involve interfacing with the display screen, utilizing frequently used menus and hot keys, utilizing various tools displayed on the status menu, and generating and editing a G and M code with a post processor.

Construct a part to a specified tolerance range with CAD-CAM applications, utilizing workholding devices to locate part features and applying established manual machining techniques.