Competency
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General Metal
Competency Assessments
Core Competency (what does everyone need to know?)
Targeted Competencies
(What will they be doing to show you that they know it?)
Assessment/Evidence
(all work must meet minimum standards before student proceeds to next assignment)
(what does it look like when they know it?)
1-Demonstrate safe and appropriate use of basic metal working hand and power tools.
(How safely do you use the tools?)
- Operate and maintain basic metal working
equipment.
- Pass a safety test for each machine.
- Safely grind a high speed steel lathe cutting tool
- Turn and outside diameter(OD) to within .005”
- Be able to fabricate hand drill project from a blue print accurately.
- Observation of students using lathes, milling machines, bench grinders all equipment.
- 100% on Safety test.
- Tool has necessary rake and clearance angles to turn lathe work.
- Fabricated item must meet blue print tolerances using measuring equipment.
2-Analyze various characteristics from technical drawings to machine or fabricate a product.
(Can you read information from a technical drawing?)
- Understand three view drawings.
- Understand basic dimensioning and isometric drawings.
- Understand hidden lines and dimensions.
- Use 3 Cartesian axes (x,y,z) on a milling machine.
- Complete worksheets from “Elementary blueprint reading” workbook.
- Interpret and use project blueprints.
- Make /sketch blueprints for personal projects.
- Using Cartesian box on mill and dials to fabricate tolerances on projects.
3-Create products from sheet metal and steel using a variety of techniques including foundry equipment.
(How well do you use the resources in the lab)
- Safely use spot welding equipment.
- Safely use shearing bending and riveting equipment to fabricate a tool box.
- Properly use sand, riddle, muller, flask parts, sprue, riser, and other equipment and techniques to create a sand cavity to accept molten aluminum to form a casting of the original pattern.
- Use spot welder to fabricate a tool box
- Finished tool box painted and to specifications from a blueprint.
- Poured a casting that has been deburred and finished.
4-Be able to measure to within a thousandth of an inch using various measuring tools
(Can you get the job done?)
- Properly use inside, outside, depth micrometers to measure dimensions.
- Properly use surface plate to layout lines for project fabrication
- Measure linear distances accurately to within .001”
- Use micrometers, calipers, scales, to measure all products made in the shop.
- Be able to measure OD, ID, Length, thread identification.
Core Performance Assessments
(What does everybody have to do?)
- Manufacture a hand drill to specifications.
- Be able to use hand tools safely.
- Be able to use basic foundry techniques to pour a casting out of aluminum.
- Be able to safely fabricate a sheet metal tool box.
- Be able to safely use the basic machine tools for milling, drilling, and turning.
- Be able to read and interpret elementary blue prints.