Material Processing
Course Goals
The student will understand how materials affect their lives and make living easier through technological transforming processes, and the selection process involved with applying a material to an application. Students will learn safe practices in using various tools and machines that touch a wide range of materials.
Course Description
This material processing course is designed to give the leaner a wide overview of materials and processes used to transform them. This course focuses on the classifying, properties, and processes of materials and the selection of those materials to be used in applications. Learners should be concerned with processes and materials used in metals, woods, plastics, ceramics, and composites. This course demonstrates unchanging processes used on different materials, as well as specific processes used on certain materials. This course also offers selection process of the use of materials in different applications. Special attention is given to safety in the work shop environment. Suggested teaching time is one semester on instruction. Major activities include reports, analysis of materials, hands on projects, minor hands on projects, and safe techniques used to process materials.