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Mar 28, 2025
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2025-2026 | Academic Catalog
CNC Programming Short-Term Technical Certificate
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The CNC Programming Short-Term Technical Certificate provides students with the skills to enter a new job field or advance in their current one. Short-Term Technical Certificates consist of three to seven courses that can be completed in a year or less. To receive a Certificate of Completion, students must complete the required courses with a cumulative GPA of “C” or better and complete an application for certificate.
NOTE Federal Financial Aid is not available for Short-Term Technical Certificate programs, but scholarship assistance may be available.
NOTE Students pursuing a Short-Term Technical Certificate may need to satisfy course prerequisites which may include placement testing.
Program Outcomes ►
The student will
- understand the various types of engineering drawings. Recognize electrical symbols, mechanical symbols, and welding symbols and develop a skill in freehand drawing of 3 dimensional objects;
- understand and practice orthographic projections as well as auxiliary views, sectioning, oblique views, and isometric views;
- understand the proper use of engineering measuring instruments such as micrometers, vernier calipers, scales, height gauges, gauge blocks, surface plates, comparators and coordinate measuring machines;
- develop an overview of manufacturing processes including metrology, materials, heat-treating, machine tool operations, metal forming, welding processes, and castings;
- gain hands-on, practical experience in metrology, machining practices, and welding processes in a lab setting; and
- understand and demonstrate the fundamentals of manual programming for numerical control machines. Topics include CNC machine types, controls, safety, and coordinate measuring systems; speed and feed calculations; CNC tooling; and programming CNC mills and lathes.
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