We are highlighting all of the programs at Sanford Regional Technical Center. Read more about the Precision Manufacturing Program below:
What are the main objectives of the program?
The objective is to prepare students with entry-level skills for a variety of precision manufacturing careers available upon graduation.
Many companies have machinist openings, like Pratt and Whitney, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Align Precision, Nikel Precision, Sig Sauer, General Dynamics, and TurboCam. Precision Manufacturing is a skilled occupation with above-average pay and benefits.
Our students are preparing to do meaningful work, such as manufacturing submarine components, Boeing aircraft engines, defense parts, food industry machines, etc.
Every aspect of our lives is affected by a machine a machinist made. Our students support those industries. Many people employed as machinists may stay with the same company for most of their working career.
How does the program incorporate hands-on learning and practical experience?
Most of the work we do is through hands-on minds on projects. They gain many skills like blueprint reading and creating through technology-based software like AutoCAD, Solidworks, and MasterCam.
Skills like safety, manual machine operations, and computer numeric control are taught and utilized through part manufacturing on various projects as a daily routine, along with Precision measurement, inspection, design and part repair, machine maintenance, and more.
What resources and equipment are available to students in the program?
The program is a fully equipped machine shop with Lathes, Milling machines, saws, grinders, CNC Lathes and Mills, both Conversational and G code-driven machines, and Zeiss Duramax Precision inspection.
How does the program prepare students for a career in precision manufacturing?
The students experience a variety of aspects of precision manufacturing that offer many different ways to enter the field based on their interests and proficiency upon graduation.
Are there any partnerships or collaborations involved in the precision manufacturing program?
Students can continue their training at a community college or university or go right to work.
Students may articulate three community college credits for continuing education. Recently, concurrent enrollment at community college was discontinued with a new initiative to assess incoming students with a PLA (Prior Learning assessment) for credit upon a passing score.