Treffer: Machine Tool Advanced Skills Technology (MAST). Common Ground: Toward a Standards-Based Training System for the U.S. Machine Tool and Metal Related Industries. Volume 4: Manufacturing Engineering Technology, of a 15-Volume Set of Skill Standards and Curriculum Training Materials for the Precision Manufacturing Industry.

This document is intended to help education and training institutions deliver the Machine Tool Advanced Skills Technology (MAST) curriculum to a variety of individuals and organizations. MAST consists of industry-specific skill standards and model curricula for 15 occupational specialty areas within the U.S. machine tool and metals-related industries. This volume provides the MAST standards and curriculum for the manufacturing engineering technician specialty area. (A manufacturing engineering technician is a person who uses special knowledge and skills to recommend and implement solutions for specific manufacturing applications.) This volume is organized in the following sections: (1) a profile of Texas State Technical College, the development center that produced these standards and curriculum; (2) a manufacturing engineering technician competency profile of job duties and tasks; (3) a manufacturing engineering technician duty, task, and subtask outline; (4) a course curriculum outline and course descriptions; (5) a technical workplace competencies and course crosswalk; and (6) a Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) proficiencies crosswalk. Individual syllabi for the following courses are provided: Machine Tool Practices I; Drafting Principles; Machine Tool Practices II; Application Software; Engineering Materials; Safety and Accident Prevention; Basic Fluid Power; Electrical Applications; Survey of Welding Processes and Applications; Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Machine Programming; Statics; Manufacturing Processes; Introduction to Computer Drafting; Computer-Assisted Design/Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) I; Tool Design I; Strength of Materials; CAD/CAM II; Computer Integrated Manufacturing; Quality Assurance and Statistical Process Control; and Engineering Technology Project. Each course syllabus includes the following: course hours, course descriptions, prerequisites, required course materials, teaching and evaluation methods, lecture and laboratory outlines, course objectives for technical and SCANS competencies, and suggested references. An appendix contains industry competency profiles. (KC)