This advanced training is designed to help vocational students compete in the increasingly demanding industrial workplace. Dresser-Rand, a leading manufacturer of oil and gas exploration and transmission equipment, provided 5,000 square feet of space at its steam turbine factory for the laboratory. This facility complements the college's computer numerical controls senior machine tool laboratory.
Students working in the welding laboratory can perform small production runs for local industry.
A more advanced program enables students to apply for the next two levels of AWS certification. Some medications must be released in small doses over a period of time. One tablet system for the slow release of medication is to use multiple layering, with coatings or fillers that dissolve at different rates or in succession. An example of such a time-release system would be a tablet with a coating, then medication, another coating farther in, and another layer of medication. A laser may be used to drill through the first coating to expose the first medication.