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 care and safety for an engine lathe.

Demonstrate engine lathe operations, including mounting the chuck on the lathe, indicating the round stock in an independent jaw chuck, indicating the square stock in an independent jaw chuck, sharpening the lathe tool bit, centering or positioning cutting tools, face cutting a work piece, turning multiple diameters, center drilling a workpiece, demonstrating angle cuts, knurling a work piece, threading a workpiece, calculating speed and feed per material, and tooling.

Turn stock to specifications on a lathe, using a variety of methods and materials.

Identify the major parts of a lathe and explain their functions.

Demonstrate installation of a cutting tool.

Contrast turning, tapping, and threading.

Produce a completed lathe project according to specifications.

Demonstrate use of measuring tools, including calipers, dial indicators, and micrometers, to produce precision lathe projects.