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.

Follow safety rules, regulations, and procedures for filing and polishing a lathe.

Demonstrate preventive maintenance of the lathe, including cleaning, inspecting, lubricating, and setting up.

Demonstrate intermediate lathe operations, including calculating speed and feed per material and tooling, aligning the tailstock, reaming a hole, boring a hole, counterboring a hole, forming a cut, machining an O-ring groove, parting off the workpiece, turning a shaft between centers, and turning close-tolerance diameters.

Demonstrate intermediate boring, turning, facing, and tapping on a workpiece.

Demonstrate advanced-level engine lathe operations, including calculating speed and feed for appropriate materials and tooling, turning multiple diameters, using a taper attachment, power tapping on a lathe, chasing right and left hand internal threads, boring a hole, and boring an internal angle.

Demonstrate advanced boring, turning, facing, and tapping on a workpiece according to NIMS Level I standards.

Demonstrate peck drilling.