Recent Community College Graduates Matrix
From Aerospace and Advanced Manufacturing Programs
This tool is meant to make hiring easier for Washington’s aerospace and advanced manufacturing companies.
This is an ongoing list of Washington’s community and technical colleges that have aerospace and advanced manufacturing programs. Each listing details credits, program descriptions, skill sets (as taught in each program), contact information, and graduation dates.
Aerospace and advanced manufacturing industry companies can contact the community and technical college nearest to them and speak directly to an instructor about graduating students.
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Welding Technology
Description
The Welding Technology program is designed for persons to acquire the technical knowledge and skills required to obtain a career in welding, fabrication, and related occupations. Graduates may qualify for positions in industries such as machinery fabrication, structural fabrication, pipe fabrication, plant maintenance, and trade occupations which require welding skills. Students who complete the first year of the program will gain sufficient training to obtain entry-level employment. The second year of the program will focus on advanced skills in welding applications in specialty areas.
Persons who complete the two-year program of study may earn the Associate in Applied Science degree in Welding Technology with an emphasis in structural welding, industrial production welding or pipe welding.
Skill Sets
- Welding Theory
- Welding Processes
- Thermal Cutting & Welding
- Gas Metal Arc Welding
- Technical Drawing Interpretation
- Welding Layout
- Weld Test Methods
- Welding Codes & Standards
- Welding Metallurgy
- Structural Welding Processes
- Submerged Arc Welding
- Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG)
- Pipe Welding
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Aviation Maintenance
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Aviation Maintenance Technology
Description
Upon completion of the AMT program course of study, the student will have earned a minimum 400 hours of classroom and laboratory training in the AMT general section, 750 hours in airframe and 750 hours in powerplant. The FAA recognizes these time allotments as sufficient to meet testing requirements. Upon successful completion of the FAA written tests for certified aviation maintenance technician, the student is then eligible to take the oral and practical tests, all of which may be taken at BBCC. The BBCC Aviation Maintenance Technology program is approved by the Washington State Aeronautics Commission and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Skill Sets
Dan Moore - danm@bigbend.edu, 509-793-2254
Erik Borg - erikb@bigbend.edu, 509-793-2253
- The Aviation Maintenance Technology program at BBCC is designed to prepare students for FAA airframe and powerplant maintenance certification and for employment in aviation maintenance careers.
- Courses offer quality training to serious and motivated students through a structured competency-based curriculum provided by industry experienced instructors.
- Instruction includes the basics of maintenance, servicing, inspection, repair, troubleshooting, and overhaul of aircraft airframes, powerplants, and their related systems and components associated with general and commercial aviation in the proper environment in which students may become professional aviation maintenance technicians.
Industrial Electrical
Description
The Industrial Electrical Technology program provides a comprehensive two-year curriculum designed to prepare students for career opportunities as industrial electrical technicians. Students receive instruction in safety, electrical and electronic theory, process control, instrumentation, and Programmable Logic Controllers. The final two quarters have an available option for an Electronic Communications emphasis. FCC license and Fiber Optic certification prep.
Skill Sets
- Basic and advanced electrical for industrial and commercial facilities
- Introduction into DC and AC electrical theory
- DC and AC electronics
- Sensor technology, mechanical systems, solid state devices, automation, and computer electronics.
- Electrical power distribution and industrial electrical motor control concepts
- Basic and advanced Programmable Controllers logic
- Introduction and advanced Instrumentation for process control.
Big Bend Community College
Big Bend Community College
7662 Chanute St NE
Moses Lake, WA 98837
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