A unique combination of relevant courses and applied experience at Ferris and at various internship sites nationwide prepares graduates to cope with advancing technology and its applications. In this program students learn to perform basic tool room operations on lathes, mills, grinders and drilling machines.
Students also receive a well-rounded general education through required and elective courses.
Graduates of this two-year program are ready for immediate employment with businesses and industry throughout the nation. Because nearly every metal-working industry requires trained machinists, graduates of this program are in high demand. Manufacturing tooling technologists study a blueprint, then operate specialized equipment to form and shape solid metal rods, bars or blocks. Operating lathes, mills, grinders, CNC equipment and drilling machines, the machinist can fulfill many industry positions. Graduates of the program may work as a toolmaker, diemaker, plastics moldmaker, machine operator, parts inspector or as a specialty machinist such as a numerical control operator or electrical discharge machine operator, programmer, sales engineer or as a teacher.