Product Prototyping

The Product Prototyping Skills Certificate is designed to give students entry-level skills, knowledge, and abilities required to enter the workforce using Advanced Manufacturing processes to solve design problems and develop prototypes of new product concepts. The certificate is designed to provide short-term training that develops fundamental skills for employment and upskilling with Computer Aided Design (CAD), Additive Manufacturing, and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) technologies, enabling innovation and design thinking. This program comprises a stackable certificate progression aligned with the Advanced Manufacturing and local apprenticeship programs.

A certificate is designed to provide career technical skills; it is not equivalent to an associate degree.

Enrollment 20 per year

Completion 20 per year

Provide students with entry-level skills needed for immediate employment in manufacturing industries. This certificate prepares students to become employed in the Manufacturing Industry as a CNC Machinist specializing in product prototypes. Accommodates employer requests to have employees who can be put to work immediately with minimal training. The intent of this certificate is to 1) Streamline award attainment, 2) Provide students with a wider variety of course selection, 3) Accommodate employer requests to have employees with broader knowledge of manufacturing,  4) Provide a credit skills certificate for the ADVM program which is stackable towards a CoA of AS.

The Product Prototyping Skills Certificate is designed to give students entry-level skills, knowledge, and abilities required to enter the workforce using Advanced Manufacturing processes to solve design problems and develop prototypes of new product concepts. This program is designed to provide short-term training that develops fundamental skills for employment and upskilling with Computer Aided Design (CAD), Additive Manufacturing, and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) technologies, enabling innovation and design thinking. This program comprises a stackable certificate progression aligned with the Advanced Manufacturing and local apprenticeship programs.

• Demonstrate safe setup and operation of Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) equipment manufacture prototype parts
• Apply parametric Computer Aided Design (CAD) principles to design and develop fully defined digital solid CAD models of mechanical components and assemblies
• Create product design concepts using digital design software
• Apply Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology to manufacture product prototypes.

For the certificate, students must fulfill the following requirements

Required Courses: 8 Units