Wood Technology

The Associate of Science degree in Wood Technology offers woodworking instruction for career-oriented students. The two primary objectives of the program is to make each student a safe machine and/or tool user, and to provide the student with the problem-solving tools that relate to four-dimensional wood-based construction. Students will learn throughout the program the fundamentals of wood technology: operational machine safety, material classifications, selections and applications, primary fabrication processes and techniques, advanced construction problems and techniques, application of hardware and finishes, modern Computer Numerical Control (CNC) based cabinet manufacturing methodologies. Employment-oriented students are assisted in finding work fabricating custom furniture, kitchen cabinets, commercial fixtures, architectural millwork, and a wide variety of other wood products.

Career Opportunities

Bench Carpenter Mill persons Cabinet instillation Finishers CNC operators CNC programmers Cabinet Detailers

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:

1. Skills: Students will develop a foundation of core skills necessary to effectively use hand tools, operate power tools, do design and layout for projects, and work with CAD/CAM software and CNC equipment that is current for the cabinet and furniture making industry.
2. Materials and Practices: Students will identify, analyze, evaluate and apply materials of the trade to the appropriate production standards creating efficient work flows for shop projects with optimal material use.
3. Communication and Calculate: Students will interpret, analyze and calculate in order to create architectural drawings and other shop documents used in the contemporary woodworking trade and communicate essential information from these documents to coworkers and clients with the appropriate nomenclature.
4. Safety: Students will evaluate, set up and operate stationary woodworking machines, portable power tools, and hand tools according to safe standard operational practices.