Why Study Machine Tool:
Every manufaturing process in the world involves machinists. Machinists are responsible for manufacturing the products we use everyday and making them affordable.
In 1769, Englishman James Watt sparked the Industrial Revolution. His steam engine's large cylinders posed a vexing problem. They had to be precise in interior size so that steam could not leak between cylinder and piston.
In 1798, American Eli Whitney secured a US government contract (for $134,000) to produce 10,000 army muskets. Whitney refined and successfully applied the "Uniformity-System" of production using inter-changeable parts.
Machinists conquer problems like this every day; they routinely break an inch of length into 10,000 equal parts and use this for measuring parts to make sure they are precise enough to work properly.
The diploma track in machine tool technology takes only 5 quarters to complete for a full-time student; part-time students take a little longer. You can be on your way to a well-paying (average starting pay $13.00 per hour) job in very little time.
Recent studies show machinists are the technicians most in demand by Georgia manufacturers - and excellent employment opportunities are predicted for highly skilled machinists through the year 2005 and beyond.
At HGTC, the machine tool technology program is designed to prepare students for a variety of machining-related occupations, such as machine operators, machine setters, machinists, and tool and die makers, which represent different skills and different skill levels.
Traditionally, machinists have directly controlled their machines-lathes, drill presses, and milling machines-standard implements they use every day to produce precision parts of metials, wood or plastics. However, the introduction of computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines has dramatically changed the nature of the machinist's work. CNC machines are more productive and enable machinists to produce parts with greater precision.
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