Workforce Development and Continuing Education
Pre-Employment
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Description: This is a six-day course in the use of various tools, measuring instruments through more complex devices and systems. This will be a hands-on-center of workstations that will emphasize both the knowledge of the tools and devices and their effective use. Course curriculum covers, hand tools, fastener identification and use, drilling and tapping, measuring instruments. Workstation curriculum covers, chains and sprockets, gears, belts and pulleys, alignment, cams and timing, overload clutches, bearings. This course is a prerequisite for Print 101: Introduction to Printing Technology.
Description: This fifteen day course is an orientation into the field of Graphic Communications with a concentration in press and bindery applications. The course is designed to be 80% practical application and 20% classroom theory. In addition to Pressroom Basics, the introduction to the printing process will emphasize the Lithography Printing Process and the Gravure Printing Process. The Finishing Operations will also be highlighted, in addition to an introduction to Personal Computers. Safety in the pressroom will be emphasized throughout the training, with a ten-hour OSHA Certification card awarded to all students who successfully complete the program. At the completion of this course, a student will have a basic knowledge of the specified areas of study that can be transferred into the work place.
Pre-Apprentice Construction 101 Training
Description: This 225 Hours of Construction Training and 80 hours of Carpentry Level One instructional course are designed to educate students in the field of carpentry construction. The general course curriculum is based on the National Center for Construction Education and Research, Hilti power actuated tools and the OSHA 10-hour worker safety course. The frame work for the course is designed using a 50/50 split between hands on live work and classroom theory. The live work sites will vary from course to course but will be focused on the areas of classroom instruction. Time will also be spent in the laboratory for simulated hands on work. This course covers the fundamentals of mathematics used by the trades, including addition, subtraction, fractions, decimals, and metrics. Students are trained in the proper use, safety, and maintenance of various types of power and hand tools. Basic print reading used in construction is covered including site, floor, detail, section, and framing plans. Students are instructed how to identify plan types, interpret symbols, dimensions, and notes. Basic rigging covers the types of rigging used on construction sites and instructed in the proper use, safety, and maintenance of rigging hardware, wire ropes, and slings. Students are instructed in the types and sizes of materials used today to construct residential buildings. In addition, they are instructed in the framing techniques and perform framing tasks in the laboratory and at work sites. This course covers the complex shapes required to provide an aluminum clad covering for doors, windows, porches and many other areas wood trim needs to be covered of maintenance free exteriors.
Department of Workforce Development and Continuing Education
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology
750 East King Street
Lancaster, PA 17602
717-391-3543
wdce@stevenscollege.edu
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