Metal Trades

        

Mr. James Jimison has been the Metal Trade instructor for the past 10 years. He is stationed in Room #40 of the Indianola Career and Technical Center. His preparation period is 7th which starts at 2:40 and ends at 3:30.

Motto: Tactical to Practical, Quality 1st, Production 2nd, Safety Always

    The Metal Trades program is desinged as a cluster program for prepartion to enter the metal working trades. Metal Trades I includes an introduction to the basic metal working processes. Metal Trades II requires that students choose one of two options (Advanced Welding Option or Advanced Machine Shop Option). The purpose of the course is to prepare students to continue study in a postsecondary metal trades program (Welding, Machine Tool Operation, or Sheet Metal) or to begin work at the entry level in a metal trades occupation.

     This curriculum has been aligned to modules in the Wheels of Learning program as endorsed by the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). Students who study this curriculum using the Wheels of Learning materials under the supervision of an instructor who has been certified by the NCCER are eligible to be tested on each module. Students who successfully pass these tests may be certified to the NCCER by the instructor and will receive documentation from NCCER.

 The Metal Trades course is designed to give the student training in four different but related areas:

Metal Trades curriculum framework is certified to the NCCER Core and Millwright Level 1:

  1. Bench Work, where general machine care and upkeep, general machine procedures, blue print reading, hand tool operations and symbols in the metal trade use, is taught.
  2. Sheet Metal, where shaping, cold forming, and pattern making for sheet metal duct work and precision production procedures, is taught.
  3. Machine Shop, where the student is taught to become a machine tool operator, all around machinist, set-up machinist, and tool and die maker. 
  4. Welding, where the student is taught the operations and burning, brazing, soldering, both hard and soft soldering, in oxyacetylene or gas welding, plus electric arc burning and welding, also metal inert gas arc welding and tungsten inert gas arc welding.

 BUILDING TRADES

TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS 

 METAL TRADES

CONSUMER SCIENCES

BUISNESS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY  

 AUTOMOTIVE MECHANICS

ALLIED HEALTH