The Advanced Manufacturing Career Cluster blends innovative technologies and practices to enhance design and production. It covers areas such as engineering, research and development, automation and artificial intelligence, equipment maintenance, safety protocols, and quality control. This Cluster aims to increase efficiency, reduce waste, ensure safety, and produce high-quality goods, driving the industry’s growth and adapting to modern demands.

The Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards must be an integrated component of all CTE course sequences.

• Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards

The Advanced Manufacturing Technologies program introduces students to the fundamentals of manufacturing and automation. Areas of emphasis include print reading, spatial reasoning, engineering design process, basic electrical and mechanical systems, additive and subtractive manufacturing processes, fundamentals of electronics, switches and relays, quality control, and an introduction to robotic systems in manufacturing.

• Program Standards – Advanced Manufacturing Technologies with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources – Advanced Manufacturing Technologies with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)

The Engineering Foundations program provides students the opportunity to learn various aspects of engineering fundamentals that would be required for any engineering field. Areas of study include safety, the engineering design process, impacts of engineering on society, sketching and documentation methods, material properties, power systems and energy principles, as well as statistics and kinematic principles.

• Program Standards - Engineering Foundations with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources – Engineering Foundations with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)

The Industrial Maintenance program provides students the opportunity to learn the operation and maintenance of various mechanical, electrical, and fluid power systems that occur in various industry settings. Areas of study include safety, tools usage, print reading, fundamental energy principles, power systems, mechanical systems, fluid systems, and basic electrical systems. In additional advanced mechanical systems will be used, fasteners and joining systems will be applied and diagnostics and trouble-shooting techniques will be investigated.

• Program Standards – Industrial Maintenance with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources – Industrial Maintenance with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)