Program coordinator works with employer to establish and maintain training goals. Classroom and individualized study provides opportunity to plan operation and technical skills on combine systems to strengthen judgment, decision making, and techniques for analyzing quality of performance of equipment application. Emphasis placed on combine equipment and efficient flow of material from field to storage to processing. Individualized laboratory practice using commercial service procedures for practice of theory and principles of harvesting equipment maintenance under actual conditions by running, testing, disassembling, and reassembling components and systems. Includes threshing mechanisms and related components, material flow components and systems, related hydraulic and power transfer systems, and electrical systems.
Student is paid part-time employee under employer's immediate supervision.
Program coordinator works with employer to establish and maintain training goals. Individualized instruction and self-study to meet specific training objectives. Specialized training toward specific occupational objective for advanced students. Objectives established with advisor at registration. Credits based upon difficulty and scheduled clock hours.