Advisory Board
1. Membership consists of:
- Journeyman Machinist
- Journeyman Tool and Die Makers
- Journeyman Moldmakers
- Machine Shop Owners
- Mechanical Engineers
- Tool Sales Professional
- Maintenance Machinist
2. Input:
- recommend tasks necessary for student success in the workplace
- Review project prints for accuracy and relevance
3. Activities:
- Skills USA: Members help judge both practice and regional contests
- Proffesional development activities: Members join in by allowing job shadowing and by attending Precision Machining Shows
- E-Mail: Members help make class decisions over e-mail
- Promotional: Members meet with students, guidance councelors, principals, and superintendents to stress the importance of a properly trained skilled workforce.
4. Involvement with program design, resource utilization, and program outcomes:
- Help in deciding what new equipment is needed
- Suggest new projects that could be used to train students
- Help prepare students for Skills USA contests
- Key players in getting donations of material, tools, and machinery
- Assist in getting up-to-date tooling into the classroom
- Inform the instructor of strengths and/or shortcomings graduates have once they are in the workforce.
- Make suggestions towards improving the end results; what needs stressed the most