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Long story short been at a software/hardware company in the tech support department for 4 years. I have no college training, I started in the manufacturing dept and worked my way up. Its not a manufacturing dept with machines or anything...I would setup pcs, network bridges, routers, ect for testing and then ship to the customer. A spot opened up for more money in the tech support department which I jumped on.
Ive always been really intrigued by CNC machines and everything involved with them. I work full time and make a okay living but im pretty bored of this field and frankly i've hit a glass ceiling. After looking around for a class that would fit my schedule I finally found a night class at a community college that is focused on CNC programming but not too much on manual machines. Its pretty short class but its a start, everything else is full time during the day which I can do while working.Certificate in CNC Machining
Advice on which 2 elective's I should take?
Certificate in CNC Machining
*Directed Electives:
Im hoping after this course I can end up in a shop but I have no idea whats out there machine wise. If I don't know what machines I might end up using what would be the best things to be well versed in? I see a few programs out there to play around with like NCPlot for instance. But I would like to be versed in whatever might be the most common area's if you guys have any advice..?
Thanks and sorry for the long winded post..I dont really know anyone who does this stuff for a living.
Long story short been at a software/hardware company in the tech support department for 4 years. I have no college training, I started in the manufacturing dept and worked my way up. Its not a manufacturing dept with machines or anything...I would setup pcs, network bridges, routers, ect for testing and then ship to the customer. A spot opened up for more money in the tech support department which I jumped on.
Ive always been really intrigued by CNC machines and everything involved with them. I work full time and make a okay living but im pretty bored of this field and frankly i've hit a glass ceiling. After looking around for a class that would fit my schedule I finally found a night class at a community college that is focused on CNC programming but not too much on manual machines. Its pretty short class but its a start, everything else is full time during the day which I can do while working.Certificate in CNC Machining
Advice on which 2 elective's I should take?
Certificate in CNC Machining
- MFG*H104 Manufacturing Processes 4
- CAD*H150 CAD 2D 3
- MFG*H106 Computer-Aided Mfg I 3
- MFG*H201 Computer-Aided Mfg. II 3
- Elective Directed Elective 3
- Elective Directed Electiveâ€* 3
- Total Credit Hours 19
*Directed Electives:
- CAD*H200 3D CAD Modeling
- CAD*H220 Parametric Design
- EET*H102 Electrical Applications
- MAT*H172 College Algebra (or higher level Mathematics course)
- MEC*H114 Statics
- MEC*H251 Materials Strengths
- Any MFG* course
- PHY*H121 General Physics I
- PHY*H122 General Physics II
- TCN*H101 Introduction to Engineering Technology
Im hoping after this course I can end up in a shop but I have no idea whats out there machine wise. If I don't know what machines I might end up using what would be the best things to be well versed in? I see a few programs out there to play around with like NCPlot for instance. But I would like to be versed in whatever might be the most common area's if you guys have any advice..?
Thanks and sorry for the long winded post..I dont really know anyone who does this stuff for a living.