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Pathway Standard:
Understand and defend the purposes and processes of inspection and quality control in machining and forming processes.

Performance Indicator:
Evaluate and know how to troubleshoot performance problems of machined and formed parts.

Pathway Standard:
Describe and layout a project according to specifications or engineering drawings. Demonstrate proper technique with layout tools and work-holding devices such as three- and four-jaw chucks, collet chucks, angle plates, sine bars, parallels, and v-blocks to machine a real part.

Pathway Standard:
Describe and layout a project according to specifications or engineering drawings. Demonstrate proper technique with layout tools and work-holding devices such as three- and four-jaw chucks, collet chucks, angle plates, sine bars, parallels, and v-blocks to machine a real part.

Performance Indicator:
Describe and then contrast when to use work-holding fixtures, such as v-block, angle plate, toe clamp, vises, chucks, or custom fixtures.

Pathway Standard:
Describe and layout a project according to specifications or engineering drawings. Demonstrate proper technique with layout tools and work-holding devices such as three- and four-jaw chucks, collet chucks, angle plates, sine bars, parallels, and v-blocks to machine a real part.

Performance Indicator:
Describe and demonstrate how to indicate a vice on a milling machine to square up a block on a mill using a micrometer and a precision square measure to confirm that the block is square.

Pathway Standard:
Describe and layout a project according to specifications or engineering drawings. Demonstrate proper technique with layout tools and work-holding devices such as three- and four-jaw chucks, collet chucks, angle plates, sine bars, parallels, and v-blocks to machine a real part.

Performance Indicator:
Use a dividing head or turn table to demonstrate the proper procedure for indexing a part requiring flats, hex, or equally spaced geometry per print specifications.

Pathway Standard:
Describe and layout a project according to specifications or engineering drawings. Demonstrate proper technique with layout tools and work-holding devices such as three- and four-jaw chucks, collet chucks, angle plates, sine bars, parallels, and v-blocks to machine a real part.

Performance Indicator:
Use a surface plate, surface gage, height gage, prick and center punches, scriber, layout dye, and other appropriate tools to locate hole centers, radii, and locations matching the specifications provided.

Pathway Standard:
Describe and layout a project according to specifications or engineering drawings. Demonstrate proper technique with layout tools and work-holding devices such as three- and four-jaw chucks, collet chucks, angle plates, sine bars, parallels, and v-blocks to machine a real part.

Performance Indicator:
Describe and demonstrate the engine lathe by grinding a high speed tool bit focusing on the tool cutting geometry and tip radius, speeds and feeds for the materials being cut and using their tool bit and precision measuring tool, machine a part within specifications.

Pathway Standard:
Research and compare the properties of two metals using two different material specifications and a process specification.

Pathway Standard:
Research and compare the properties of two metals using two different material specifications and a process specification.

Performance Indicator:
Classify the difference between ferrous and nonferrous metals and contrast low-, medium-, and high-carbon steels by their common uses in industry.

Pathway Standard:
Research and compare the properties of two metals using two different material specifications and a process specification.

Performance Indicator:
Describe both the alloys from their classification systems utilizing Unified Numbering System (UNS) or American Iron and Steel Institute-Society of Automotive Engineers (AISI-SAE) and explain how characteristics such as the Rockwell Hardness Test affect machining operations.