Department:    WT

 Course #:    202

 Credits:    16

 Variable:     No

 Course Description  

Introduction to metal fabrication and manufacturing techniques. Emphasizes safe mechanized handling of materials, heavy shearing/forming/welding operations, teamwork, and communication in cooperative enterprise. Selected topics from blueprint reading, layout, or applied science.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: WT 104 & 105 or Department Chair permission.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 77

Lab: 198

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Vocational Preparatory Required for ATA degree  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Follow verbal and written instructions for handling and processing materials.
2. Perform assigned tasks related to fabricating products in a simulated manufacturing environment.
3. Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively within workgroups.
4. Solve production-related problems.
5. Participate effectively in team efforts to meet production schedules and maintain a safe work environment.
6. Demonstrate an awareness and sensitivity to the varying backgrounds and capabilities of co-workers.
7. Exhibit an enhanced understanding of basic concepts from blueprint reading, layout, or applied science.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

2. Critical Thinking

Definition: The ability to think critically about the nature of knowledge within a discipline and about the ways in which that knowledge is constructed and validated and to be sensitive to the ways these processes often vary among disciplines.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
2.3 Identify, interpret, and evaluate pertinent data and previous experience to reach conclusions.
2.4 Evaluate decisions by analyzing outcomes and the impact of actions.
2.9 Apply and/or create problem-solving strategies to successfully adapt to unpredictable and/or changing environments.

3. Communication

Definition: Understanding and producing effective written, spoken, visual, and non-verbal communication.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
3.6 Recognize, comprehend, and use visual communication appropriate to a given context.

5. Global & Local Awareness & Responsibility

Definition: Understanding the complexity and interdependence of, and stewardship responsibilities to, local and global communities and environments.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
5.1 Understand the impact of their own and other’s actions on local/global communities and environments and how those communities/environments affect them in turn.
5.3 Understand the consequences of choices as they relate to local/global community and environmental issues.
5.4 Understand the concept of local/global stewardship, and its ethical components, to communities and environments.
5.5 Demonstrate ethical practices as part of stewardship to local/global communities and environments.

6. Individual Awareness & Responsibility

Definition: Understanding, managing, and taking responsibility for one’s learning and behavior in varied and changing environments.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
6.3 Apply successful organizational strategies of planning, goal setting, prioritizing, resolving conflict, and managing time to specific goals and/or projects.

7. Aesthetics & Creativity

Definition: Interpreting human experience through engagement with creative processes and aesthetic principles.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
7.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the creative process.
7.2 Demonstrate knowledge of aesthetic principles.

9. Scientific Literacy

Definition: Understanding scientific principles, and analyzing and applying scientific information in a variety of contexts.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
9.3 Analyze, apply, and communicate scientific concepts and principles in context (for example, in technological, personal, and/or professional situations).

Course Contents

1. Safety in manufacturing/fabrication of weldments.
2. Manufacturing process techniques.
3. Case studies involving pluralism in the workplace.
4. Selected topics from blueprint reading, layout, or applied science.