This Career Cluster® is focused on planning, managing, and performing the processing of materials into intermediate or final products and related professional and technical support activities such as production planning and control, maintenance and manufacturing, and process engineering.
The Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards must be an integrated component of all CTE course sequences.
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.
The Electronic Technology program provides students the opportunity to develop technical skills that are used throughout the electronic industry. Areas of study include safety, tools, direct current (DC), alternating current (AC), schematics, soldering, measuring electricity, Ohm's/Watt's/Kirchhoff's Laws, electronic circuits, and digital theory.
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.
The Metalworking program provides students with instruction in the various metalworking processes. Areas of study include safety procedures, print reading, measurement, properties of metals, machine operation, metal-fabricating methods, industrial applications, and problem-solving. Students will also be introduced to the principles of metallurgy, metal lathe operation, forging methods, casting process, welding, and heat-treating procedures.
The Welding Technology program provides students with instruction in the industry standard welding practices. Areas of study include print reading, measurement, properties of metals, shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), gas metal arc welding (GMAW), flux cored arc welding (FCAW), gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), and thermal cutting.
Students who started the program of study in or prior to the 2022-23 school year will complete the program sequence as stated in the 2021-22 CTE Course Catalog. The Level 3 course for students who started the program of study in or prior to the 2022-23 school year will be offered through the 2024-25 school year.
Any materials needed to complete these courses may be requested by emailing cteinfo@doe.nv.gov.