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Students in Lane Community College’s Industrial Trades program acquire the programming and machining skills needed to compete in today’s demanding manufacturing world.
manual machining and the other on CNC. It’s the latter that draws the most interest, by far. There are also Career Pathway Certificates of Completion (CPC), designed to qualify students for entry-level machining jobs or advance in their current ones.
LCC’s 10,000 sq. ft. manufacturing technology facility boasts more than 65 different machine tools. These include fourteen CNC lathes and machining centers, the
majority of which are from Haas Automation. Students also gain design skills using Solidworks CAD software, learn CNC programming with Mastercam, and have access to Tooling U-SME’s suite of online manufacturing classes. And, of course, they learn how to use VERICUT from CGTech Inc., a software development firm in Irvine, California, that specializes in CNC toolpath simulation, verification, optimization, and analysis.
Mathematics knowledge is a must for any machinist, but nothing beats hands-on machine tool experience.
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