He's like most Salt Lake Community College heavy-duty mechanic majors, already working in the field and has a job guaranteed upon graduation. Salt Lake Valley has great offerings for our trained students. At a class size of about 17, students receive individual instruction and attention from its instructors, many who have industry experience. Others perform preventive maintenance on the mining industry's equipment haul trucks, shovels and bulldozers.
Students gain an understanding of the industry as well as the equipment they work on.
Hughes, of West Bountiful, is able to apply much of the information and training he learns in the classroom at his father's company, DeWayne Hughes Construction. I understand what they're teaching and how and why to do what they want. He's a reliable self-starter who has good people and mechanical skills. Hughes' talent in the field is apparent, not only by his 4.0 grade-point average, but also by his proven talent. As a freshman this past spring, he won the statewide vocational skills competition in diesel equipment technology, which allowed him to compete this summer in the national contest.