Standards - Career & Technical Education

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.

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 related to milling applications.

Demonstrate care and safety for operating milling machines.

Use various types of milling cutters and applications, including center drill, drill, reamer, taps, end mills, fly cutter, and carbide insert cutters.

Complete milling machine operations, including verifying that a machining vise is true to machine axis, verifying that the machine head is perpendicular to the machine table, using workpiece clamping techniques, milling a flat surface, milling steps in a workpiece, performing slot milling, milling a square block, calculating speed and feed per material and tooling, and milling a pocket in a workpiece.

Demonstrate care and safety for a surface grinder.

Demonstrate grinding techniques, including mounting a grinding wheel, dressing a grinding wheel, grinding a flat surface, and grinding a workpiece square and parallel.

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 a drill press.

Demonstrate drill press techniques, following National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) Level I drill press standards.

Conduct hardness tests on a workpiece, including a file test and a Rockwell hardness test.

Identify and set the machine controls.

Set up and operate a drill press for hole work, center drill, drill, ream, spot facing, tapping, countersink, and counterbore.

Set drill presses for proper feed and speed for specific operations.

Describe the anatomy of a twist drill bit.

Sharpen a twist drill using the drill grinding machine and the offhand method, applying concepts of drill geometry.

Demonstrate the ability to use a tape measure for accurate cutting of metal parts.

Identify and use basic hand tools needed to adjust and maintain machine tools to manufacturers’ specifications.

Read and interpret a mechanical drawing.

Demonstrate the fundamentals of blueprint reading.

Identify product features, dimensions, and tolerances of an object from a multiview drawing.

Identify geometric dimensioning and assembly tolerances on a drawing.

Interpret dimensions of an object in a technical drawing.

Interpret assembly drawings.