Manufacturing Technology A.A.S. (MFT)

*This is an overview of the program. The course sequencing is meant to serve as a guideline for your semester planning. Please note that the scheduling of courses, program sequencing and curriculum are subject to change.*

This program is designed to prepare students for employment as mechanical technicians or electronics technicians in a manufacturing environment. Current trends in industry require technicians to have skills in multiple disciplines to design, install, operate, and troubleshoot both the mechanical workings as well as the electrical and/or electronic devices that control modern production machinery.

This program is comprehensive in that it steps students through a typical design-to-build process utilized by many manufacturing companies. The courses build upon each other and challenge students through laboratory-related projects and experiments.

Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will be able to:

• connect components into basic electrical circuits and use multimeters to verify circuit operation.

• connect digital circuits, such as logic gates, flip flops, counters, and arithmetic circuits, all common to computers, into functioning circuits.

• draw the architecture of a typical microprocessor and explain the operation of each section on the microprocessor.

• use Programmable Logic Controllers to control specific process control operations.

• use electrophysical sensors to measure such conditions as light, heat, pressure, and motion to control and operate power devices.

• perform operational tests on a variety of hydraulic and pneumatic circuits.

• work from manufacturing handbooks, catalogs, and other informational sources to obtain data necessary for selecting manufacturing components.

• proficiently use a Computer-Aided Drafting (CAD) workstation to design and draw up necessary machinery parts.

• determine the most efficient process to manufacture a product based on its functionality and working environment.

• generate CNC programs utilizing Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software.

• select tooling that will most effectively machine component parts.

*English 106 may be substituted for English 107.