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Dunwoody Right Skills Now For Manufacturing
The Right Skills Now for Manufacturing certificate is designed to fast-track your career in the high-skill, high-demand field of CNC operators.
Learn the basic principles of metal-cutting and milling technology while completing hands-on projects on both manual and CNC (computer numeric controlled) machines.
Upon graduation, you’ll enter the industry as an entry-level manual or CNC machine tool operator.
Right Skills Now for Manufacturing (CNC) curriculum is closely aligned with standards set forth by the National Institute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS). This ensures that employers have confidence in your machining skills.
Credits earned in the Right Skills Now certificate directly transfer into Dunwoody’s Machine Tool Technology, Engineering Drafting & Design, or Welding & Metal Fabrication associate’s degree programs.
Class topics include:
- CNC Machine Theory & Lab
- Engineering Drawing with SolidWorks
- Machine Shop Fundamentals
- Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerances
Student Organizations
Opportunities to get involved outside of the classroom include:
- Robotic Snow Plow Team
- SkillsUSA
Recent Employers of Graduates
Companies that hire our graduates include:
- Integer: Greatbatch Medical – Lake Region Medical – Electrochem
- Mendell Engineering
- MultiSource Manufacturing LLC
- Mate Precision Tooling
- Twin City Die Castings Co.
Common Job Titles
Possible job titles upon graduation include:
- CNC Operator
- Machinist
- Machine Operator
Facilities
Gene Haas Manufacturing Innovation Lab
Learn to program CNC milling and turning operations and develop the tooling used in modern manufacturing processes like injection molding and metal stamping.
- 10 Haas CNC Mini Mills
- 2 Haas VF2 Mills
- Haas ST-10 Lathe
- Sodick Wire EDM
- Charmilles Sinker EDM
- Cincinatti Injection Mold Press
Engineering, Materials, Mechanics & Metrology Lab
Open to all manufacturing and engineering students (and those with training on the equipment), this lab brings together equipment for additive manufacturing, material testing, measurement, and CNC simulation.
- Two Stratasys Fortus 250 3D Printers
- One Stratasys F370 3D Printer
- One Fortus 400 3D Printer
- Two MakerBot 3D Printers
- Two Zeiss Duramax Coordinate Measurement Machines
- Two MTS Criterion Tensile/Shear/Compression Testers
- 7 Haas CNC Controller Simulators
- One Zeiss Stemi 305 Microscope