Students complete a wide range of courses with an emphasis on heavy equipment operation.
In addition to hands-on experience in heavy equipment, students gain experience in surveying, mapping, land management and soils, environmental monitoring, field data collection and appropriate reporting techniques for presentation to agency professionals for analysis and action. General studies Heavy equipment operation allows the student to become proficient in small, medium and large dozers, trackhoe, excavator, rubber tired backhoe and off road dump trucks. Successful completion of each quarter results in a quarterly certificate of equipment competency. Training work sites include strip mines, abandoned mine openings, gob piles, railroads, canals, ponds, lakes, roads and landfills. The Environmental Restoration technology received the 1997 Renew America national award for educational institutions that combine environmental training with various public and government sectors to restore environmentally unstable land, water and air.