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 precision machining equipment.

Interpret blueprint symbols and lines related to precision machining.

Demonstrate maintenance procedures for a drill press.

Demonstrate drill press operations, including hand sharpening a drill bit, center drilling, drilling a workpiece, countersinking a hole, counterboring a hole, calculating speed and feed per material, and tooling.

Demonstrate maintenance procedures for vertical and horizontal power saws.

Demonstrate saw operations.

Install a saw blade.

Straight cut a workpiece.

Saw an angle.

Saw a slot using a vertical saw.

Demonstrate benchwork skills related to precision machining.

Ring test a grinding wheel.

Mount a grinding wheel on a bench grinder and adjust safety guards.

Hand grind various cutting tools.

Demonstrate layout with combination square and scribe and with a Vernier height gauge.

Lay out a circle using chord length.

Hand tap internal threads.

Produce external threads with a threading die.

Demonstrate accurate and precise measurements, geometric dimensioning, and use of trigonometric functions related to precision machining.