The Fundamentals of Wood Technology Certificate of Achievement offers instruction in woodworking for career-oriented students, and includes access to one of the best-equipped shops in Northern California. Employment-oriented students are assisted in finding work making custom furniture, kitchen cabinets, commercial fixtures, architectural millwork, and a wide variety of other wood products. Instruction is highly individualized and is designed to allow flexibility in learning speed, design experimentation, and areas of emphasis. The two primary goals of all classes are 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.
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Due to industry need and student demand, department decided to create a CA to reflect completion of first semester coursework. Students will then be able enter basic entry level positions. This program will prepare students with machine and tool operational safety, application of material science, fundamental processes and techniques, and fundamental workflow analysis.
Item 1. Program Goals and Objectives
The Fundamentals of Wood Technology Certificate of Achievement offers instruction in woodworking for career-oriented students, and includes access to one of the best-equipped shops in Northern California. Employment-oriented students are assisted in finding work making custom furniture, kitchen cabinets, commercial fixtures, architectural mill work, and a wide variety of other wood products. Instruction is highly individualized and is designed to allow flexibility in learning speed, design experimentation, and areas of emphasis. The two primary goals of all classes are 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.
Program Outcomes
· Skills: Students will develop a foundation of core skills necessary to effectively use hand tools, operate power tools,create design and layout for projects, and work with software and CNC equipment that is current for the cabinet and furniture making trade.
· Materials and Practices: Students will identify,analyze, and apply materials of the trade to the appropriate production parameters, creating efficient work flows for shop projects with optimal material use. Students will analyze production processes and apply required techniques in order to meet production standards.
· Communication and Calculate Students will interpret, analyze, do required mathematical calculations and create architectural drawings and other shop documents used in the contemporary woodworking trade and communicate essential information from these documents to coworkers and clients. Students will use woodworking nonmenclature to communicate effectively in the woodworking field.
· Safety Students will evaluate, set up and operate woodworking machinery and use hand tools according to safe operational practices and understand the implications of materials as they relate to worker and customer safety and environmental impacts.
Item 2. Catalog Description
The Fundamentals of Wood Technology Certificate of Achievement offers instruction in woodworking for career-oriented students, andincludes access to one of the best-equipped shops in Northern California.Employment-oriented students are assisted in finding work making customfurniture, kitchen cabinets, commercial fixtures, architectural millwork, and awide variety of other wood products. Instruction is highly individualized andis designed to allow flexibility in learning speed, design experimentation, andareas of emphasis. The two primary goals of all classes are to make eachstudent a safe machine and/or tool user, and to provide the student with theproblem-solving tools that relate to four-dimensional wood-based construction.
Item 3. ProgramRequirements
Requirements | Dept. Name/# | Name | Units | Laney GE | Sequence |
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Core Courses (9 units): | WDTEC 10 | Wood Technology I | 3 | Yr 1, Fall | |
WDTEC 10L | Wood Technology Laboratory I | 4 | Yr 1, Fall | ||
WDTEC 11 | Furniture Cabinet Layout I | 2 | Yr 1, Fall | ||
Major Requirements | 9 | ||||
Total Units | 9 | ||||
Recommended but not required: | |||||
MATH 221 or MATH 220G |
Item 4. MasterPlanning
This certificate was designed as thefirst level of a new stackable certificate system in conjunction with the WoodTechnology industry advisory committee. Companies currently hire employees withlittle to no experience and typically experience a low retention rate.
This intensive one semestercertificate of achievement will allow a shorter period of study than previouslyavailable in the program. Students will be provided with the basic fundamentalswhich students will require to enter the workforce in the field of study as anentry level employee with a strong grasp of operational safety, application ofmaterials, and fundamental awareness of processes and techniques.
Item 5. Enrollmentand Completer Projections
The enrollment data for the courses included in the Fundamentalsof Wood Technology CA is shown in the table below. These are the numbers of grades (other than“W”) earned. Only regular semesters(fall and spring) are taken into account.
The data shows a robust growth in the number of students atLaney College who are in majors that require rigorous training inlower-division computer science courses.
Enrollment Data – Number of Letter Grades (other than W)Earned
Course | F16 & S17 | F17 & S18 | F18 & S19 |
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WDTEC 10 Wood Technology I | 33 | 69 | 53 |
WDTEC 10L Wood Technology Laboratory I | 33 | 34 | 29 |
WDTEC 11 Furniture Cabinet Layout I | 36 | 69 | 66 |
Item 6. Placeof Program in Curriculum/Similar Programs
a) There are no active inventory records that need to bechanged in connection with the approval of the proposed program.
b) This program does not replace any existing program onthe college’s inventory.
c) Laney offers an AS and CA in WDTEC in the subject. Laneyis the only college in the district that offers WDTEC
Item 7. SimilarPrograms at Other Colleges in Service Area
Laney is the only one in the district that will be offeringa CA Wood Technology. Outside of ourdistrict, no other college has a degree in Wood Technology. CCSF has someclasses in Carpentry.
Course | Title | Units | Year/Semester (Y1 or S1) |
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Requirements | Dept. Name/# | Name | Units | Laney GE | Sequence |
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Core Courses (9 units): | WDTEC 10 | Wood Technology I | 3 | Yr 1, Fall | |
WDTEC 10L | Wood Technology Laboratory I | 4 | Yr 1, Fall | ||
WDTEC 11 | Furniture Cabinet Layout I | 2 | Yr 1, Fall | ||
Major Requirements | 9 | ||||
Total Units | 9 | ||||
Recommended but not required: | |||||
MATH 221 or MATH 220G |
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