2024-2025 Surry Community College Catalog
Computer-Integrated Machining
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Curriculum Description
The Computer-Integrated Machining curriculum prepares students with the analytical, creative and innovative skills necessary to take a production idea from an initial concept through design, development and production, resulting in a finished product.
Coursework may include manual machining, computer applications, engineering design, computer-aided drafting (CAD), computer-aided machining (CAM), blueprint interpretation, advanced computerized numeric control (CNC) equipment, basic and advanced machining operations, precision measurement and high-speed multi-axis machining.
Program Learning Outcomes
Computer-Integrated Machining students will:
- Safely perform the basic operation of machine shop equipment and machinery.
- Demonstrate the ability to properly operate all necessary machine shop hand tools and measuring devices.
- Demonstrate the ability to properly operate a vertical milling machine.
- Demonstrate the ability to properly operate a lathe turning machine.
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic and advanced usage of the Computer Numerical Controls systems (CNC) milling machine.
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic and advanced usage of the CNC lathe machine.
Employment Opportunities
Graduates should qualify for employment as machining technicians in high-tech manufacturing, rapid-prototyping and rapid-manufacturing industries, specialty machine shops, fabrication industries, and high-tech or emerging industries such as aerospace, aviation, medical, and renewable energy, and to sit for machining certification examinations.
Contact
Walter Poplin
Lead Instructor for Computer-Integrated Machining
poplinw@surry.edu
(336) 386-3616
Apprenticeships
Surry Community College offers real-world education and on the job training through apprenticeships.
Contact: Rachel Hiatt, Coordinator - Work-Based Learning and Apprenticeship Initiatives
(336) 386-3291 | hiattr@surry.edu
Financial aid is available to eligible students: https://surry.edu/paying-for-college/financial-aid/
Contact: financialaid@surry.edu or (336) 386-3264 for more information.
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