Machinist, Level I Certificate

Machinist I, Level 1 Certificate

[C1_MAC1 certificate offered at LSC-CyFair, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris and LSC-University Park]

Total Credit Hours Required for Certificate: 21

The Machinist I Certificate Level I is often referred to as “manual machining”, as in the operator manually controls the machine as opposed to a computer. The manual Machinist student will be taught material properties, blueprint reading, and precision measuring tool use, precision layout and set up, machine shop mathematics, the safe operation of manual lathes, mills and drills to manufacture precision parts. Manual machinists are skilled, dexterous individuals who drill, cut and shape items with precision machine tools. Working in industrial shops or plants with blueprints and specifications, machinists produce anything from springs to aerospace parts. This is the required foundational set of skills to move into the Machine tool technology career and it stacks (builds) onto the other machining certificates to eventually yield the student if desired the AAS degree in Machining Technology.  

• First Semester Credits / Units: 15

• MCHN 1302 - Print Reading for Machine Trades Credit Hours: 3 *
• MCHN 1338 - Basic Machine Shop I Credit Hours: 3 *
• MCHN 1343 - Machine Shop Mathematics Credit Hours: 3 *
• EDUC 1300 - Learning Framework: 1st Year Experience Credit Hours: 3 * ¹
• MCHN 1319 - Manufacturing Materials and Processes Credit Hours: 3

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  Second Semester (of current award) Credits / Units: 6

• MCHN 1352 - Intermediate Machining I Credit Hours: 3
• MCHN 2341 - Advanced Machining I Credit Hours: 3

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  *Course also required for the Computer Numeric Control Operator/Programmer I, Level I Certificate

Note(s)

¹Students exempt from the Student Success Course  requirement should take COSC 1301 - Introduction to Computers