Advanced Manufacturing and Production Technology

Short Description:

This program offers a broad technical foundation of knowledge and skills to prepare students for employment in Automation and Production positions. Study of automation technology, its application in manufacturing, engineering and robotics, fiber optics, co-bots (collaborative robots), electrical controls, machine language, drones, animatronics, programming safety, training in programmable logic controller, basic CNC design, milling, woodworking, plasma cutting, LASERS, pneumatics, hydraulics, basic electrical, CAD, project management, persistence of vision (optical illusion).

Program Content:

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the manufacturing career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the manufacturing career cluster. This program offers a broad foundation of knowledge and skills to prepare students for employment in Advanced Manufacturing and Production positions.
The content includes but is not limited to providing students with a foundation of knowledge and technically oriented experiences in the study of automation technology, its application in manufacturing, engineering and robotics, and its effect upon our lives and the choosing of an occupation. The content and activities will also include the study of enterprise systems, safety, quality, and leadership skills. This program focuses on transferable skills and stresses understanding and demonstration of the technological tools, machines, instruments, materials, processes and systems in business and industry.

Certification/Licensure:  SolidWorks Professional.

CTSO: SkillsUSA and/or HOSA are the approved cocurricular career and technical student organizations which provide activities for students as an integral part of the instruction by providing leadership training and reinforcing specific career and technical skills.

Articulation: May be available toward credits at Florida public colleges/universities.
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