Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Students will be required to secure site locations.  This will normally involve developing a resume and going through an interview process with the company.  Once the site is identified, the instructor will meet at the site with both the student and supervisor to clarify the goals of the course and secure agreement signatures on the required forms.  A post training survey will be completed by the employer, along with a reflection document by the student.

Upon completion of the course students will be able to:

• Use common machine shop paperwork and documentation.
• Read and use blueprints at the worksite.
• Measure parts using precision machine shop measuring tools.
• Apply shop math as appropriate for the task.
• Operate machine shop equipment to machine parts correctly.
• Meet the learning outcomes specific to this course as mutually agreed upon by the student and instructor in advance through a written learning contract, and as appropriate to the credit awarded for the course. 
   

Machine Manufacturing Technology Cooperative Education students will have the opportunity to practice skills that they learned in class in actual industry settings. In some cases, students will learn other skill sets not learned in the classroom setting. They will also be gaining work experience to list on a resume or job application.

At the completion of the course, the industry supervisor will complete a performance review document offering feedback on the success level of the cooperative education activity.  Students will additionally write and submit a reflection paper describing the skills they learned and practiced during the cooperative education activity.  Credit grading is pass/no pass only.