Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Students will be required to secure site locations.  This will normally involve developing a resume and going through an interview process with the company.  Once the site is identified, the instructor will meet at the site with both the student and supervisor to clarify the goals of the course and secure agreement signatures on the required forms.  A post training survey will be completed by the employer, along with a reflection document by the student.

During the completion of this course, students will:

• Use common machine shop paperwork and documentation.
• Gain experience to read and use blueprints on the job to improve blueprint reading skills.
• Measure parts using precision measuring tools to improve their precision measurement accuracy.
• Apply shop math to improve shop math skills.
• Operate various machine shop equipment to gain experience.
   

Machine Manufacturing Technology Cooperative Education students will have the opportunity to practice skills that they learned in class in actual industry settings. In some cases, students will learn other skill sets not learned in the classroom setting. They will also be gaining work experience to list on a resume or job application.

At the completion of the course, the industry supervisor will complete a performance review document offering feedback on the success level of the cooperative education activity.  Students will additionally write and submit a reflection paper describing the skills they learned and practiced during the cooperative education activity.  Credit grading is pass/no pass only.