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.

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.

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.

Create and maintain an engineering notebook for daily reflections, research, and prototype creation documentation.

Apply the design and problem-solving process as an iterative process incorporating science, mathematics, and engineering to optimally convert resources to meet a stated objective.

Communicate solutions utilizing technical writing skills, including correct spelling, proper grammar, and specialized vocabulary.

Assume and carry out a role in the smooth running of a team working toward the solution of a problem.

Produce a quantitative plan for the successful completion of a project.

Assume responsibility for leadership roles and for actions, decisions, products, and policies in the governance of a project.