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  "college": "el-camino-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "Machine Tool Technology",
  "id": "machine-tool-technology-machinist-as",
  "name": "Machine Tool Technology: Machinist",
  "award": "Associate of Science",
  "department": "machine-tool-technology",
  "sourceUrl": "http://catalog.elcamino.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=13&poid=3626",
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      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "**Design and Applied Technology Division**\nwww.elcamino.edu/academics/divisions/design-and-applied-technology/\n\nThe machine tool technology program prepares students for employment in machine shops, tool rooms, and instrument and experimental laboratories and provides upgrade opportunities for employed industrial personnel. Students gain proficiency in the set-up and operation of drilling machines, lathes, mills, grinders, electrical discharge machines, Computer Numerical Control (CNC) lathes, CNC milling machines, and computer aided manufacturing systems. Competencies will be assessed regularly in accordance with skill standards established by the National Institute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS). Students completing the program may enter industry as an advanced apprentice machinist or machine operator and anticipate advancement to machinist, tool and die maker, experimental machinist, or numerical control programmer.\n\nComplete the courses in one of the following options: Machinist or Numerical Control Programmer. At least 50 percent of the courses required for the major must be completed at El Camino College.\n\nFor Gainful Employment program information, please visit  www.elcamino.edu/academics/areas-of-study/machine-tool-technology.php.\n\n### Required Core: 28 units"
    },
    {
      "kind": "courselist",
      "rows": [
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MTT 2",
          "title": "Manufacturing Print Reading",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MTT 10A",
          "title": "Introduction to CAD/CAM",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MTT 16",
          "title": "General Metals",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MTT 40",
          "title": "Machine Shop Calculations",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MTT 101",
          "title": "Introduction to Conventional and CNC Machining",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MTT 103",
          "title": "Conventional and CNC Turning",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MTT 105",
          "title": "Conventional and CNC Milling",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MTT 107",
          "title": "Advanced Manufacturing Processes",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "**Total Major Units: 28**\n\n### Recommended Electives:"
    },
    {
      "kind": "courselist",
      "rows": [
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CADD 5",
          "title": "Introduction to Mechanical Drafting",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CADD 7",
          "title": "Solid Modeling, Assemblies and Two Dimensional (2D) Drawings",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "CADD 45",
          "title": "Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MTT 95",
          "title": "Cooperative Work Experience Education",
          "units": "2-4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MTT 99",
          "title": "Independent Study",
          "units": "1-3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "WELD 15",
          "title": "Basic Welding for Allied Fields",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "### GE Patterns\n\nComplete one of the following:\n\n#### ECC GE: 24 units\n\nRequired for local degrees (AA and AS).\n\n#### Cal-GETC: 34 units\n\nRequired for transfer degrees (AA-T and AS-T).\n\n### Electives\n\nAs needed to reach a minimum of 60 degree-applicable units.\n\n**Minimum Degree Total: 60 units**"
    }
  ]
}