The Manufacturing Foundations Certificate Program
The Manufacturing Foundations certificate program is designed to provide participants with a base of abilities and knowledge applicable to the manufacturing industry.
By completing the program and obtaining a certificate, participants will demonstrate a commitment to the responsibility and discipline required to complete the course of study.
The certificate program is designed to improve participants’ abilities to:
- Read and understand work instructions.
- Read and interpret shop drawings.
- Understand and be able to perform calculations utilizing fundamental machine shop mathematics.
- Recognize problems and be able to identify and recommend potential solutions.
- Understand themselves and others for effective personal, group, and team interactions in the workplace.
- Develop and demonstrate workplace skills in the areas of collaboration, good work habits and attitudes, ethics, conflict management, and motivation.
- Learn effective listening and feedback methods.
- Gain the confidence and ability to communicate verbally and in writing in an understandable, concise, cohesive, and appropriately assertive manner.
- Recognize and appreciate the value and rewards of continuous learning as a tool to embrace rather than resist change.