Heavy Equipment
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The Heavy Equipment Sciences program will prepare students for construction building jobs, infrastructures projects (roads, bridges, and ports, otherwise called non-building construction), and in mining and timber operations. A trained and experienced equipment operator provides necessary skills for any project that requires moving and transporting heavy materials or that demands any kind of earthmoving.
Students have the opportunity to earn NCCER certification and OSHA 10
Students are members of Skills USA, this organization is a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce.
Courses:
Students earn one credit per course, each course is one quarter in length
Introduction to Construction Technology
This course is the introduction to the construction carpentry industry. The class will emphasize safe and proper methods of operating hand tools, portable power tools, and stationary power tools in the construction industry.
Heavy Highway Construction Equipment Repair
This course introduces students to perform preventive maintenance, diagnose malfunction, prescribe corrective actions, and repair heavy highway equipment.
Heavy Equipment Operation
This course introduces students to the basic terminology and equipment used in the heavy equipment trade; working around heavy equipment in a safe and responsible manner; commonly used heavy equipment machines, including dump trucks, trenchers, backhoes, excavators, skid steer, and dozers; drive systems and hydraulic systems
Special Topics—Heavy Equipment
Instruction related to Industrial Education – Heavy Equipment but not described in the other courses. Will include field experience