All through this fall semester, Jake Schmidt, the machining teacher, has been giving first-year students tours of the machining shop. He focuses on showing first-year students the contents of machining classes and what types of tools are used in the industry.
“I’m telling the freshmen about all the different types of tools and how we read blueprints to make parts to size using calipers,” Schmidt explained.
He added that the tour also covered how many axes the lathe and mill had and the types of programs his students used for the CNC machine.
The first-year students have made the tour through their Career Exploratory classes, and Schmidt said he hopes all of this year’s first-year students go through the tour by the end of the year.
Schmidt teaches Machining levels 1-3. He has 30 students in Machining 1, 16 in Machining 2, and five seniors in Machining 3.
Students in Machining 3 have been making critical chains for the class of 2028.
“Next year, I hope to have more students,” Schmidt said.
