They design and install circuit layouts for residential and commercial buildings. Students wire a modular home which is built on campus. In addition, motors, generators and alarm systems are studied. Good skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are very helpful for success in this program. Students learn to construct and repair equipment, machinery, parts and piping by fusing metal parts together using oxyacetylene, MIG, TIG or arc welding apparatus and plasma-arc cutter.
Instruction is balanced by the opportunity to build practical projects.
With experience and further training a student may become a blacksmith, instrument maker or pipe welder. Possible employers are heavy construction contractors, machine tool shops, shipyards, the aerospace industry and fabricating shops.