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 procedures for operating milling machines.

Demonstrate milling machine operations, including setting up and using a rotary table, machining a Woodruff keyway, cutting T-slots, centering a rotary table, boring and counterboring a hole, machining slots in a work piece, power tapping a hole, machining a close-tolerance square block, calculating speed and feed per material and tooling, milling multiple steps in a workpiece, and milling pockets on a workpiece.

Demonstrate operations for milling steps, slots, angles, and pockets in a work piece.

Demonstrate advanced milling operations, including calculating speed and feed for specified materials and tooling; power tapping a hole; indicating a round hole; milling a block square to close tolerance; milling precise angles on a workpiece; milling steps, slots, and pockets on a workpiece; and drilling a precise circular hole pattern.

Demonstrate procedures for milling advanced steps, slots, angles, and pockets in a workpiece according to NIMS Level I standards.

Demonstrate grinding techniques, including grinding a grooving tool, grinding an angle using a sine bar, and grinding a block square and parallel according to NIMS Level I standards.

Demonstrate safe methods of performing routine maintenance and care for a surface grinder.