General Machinist-2025/2026
| Level 1 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
| SFTY-1052 | Applied Trade Safety Practices | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to cover the rules and regulations an apprentice must be aware of when working in an industrial machine shop in Ontario. Portions of the legislation in the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Workplace Hazardous Material Information System (WHMIS) will be reviewed. | ||||
| MACH-1159 | Metallurgy | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to describe metal characteristics and properties, metal manufacturing processes, and systems of classification and identification | ||||
| MACH-1156 | Benchworking Techniques | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to apply benchworking techniques and to operate tools and equipment to fit and assemble components | ||||
| MACH-1158 | Metal Cutting Saw Technology | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to operate metal cutting saws to cut and shape workpieces. | ||||
| MACH-1157 | Drilling Technology | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to operate drill presses/machines to drill, counterbore, countersink, spotface, deburr, ream and tap work pieces | ||||
| MACH-1161 | Turning Technology | 2 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to operate a lathe to parallel turn and face; centre drill, parallel turn to a shoulder; turn external tapers or angles; cut chamfers and external crew threads and drill and ream. | ||||
| MACH-1162 | Vertical Milling Technology | 2 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to operate vertical milling machines to mill surfaces, shapes, and forms, counter bore/spot face holes; and drill holes | ||||
| MACH-1163 | Surface Grinding Technology | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to operate surface grinding machines to surface grind horizontal, vertical, and angular flat and parallel surfaces. | ||||
| MACH-1160 | Metrology-Measuring & Checking | 2 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to operate, and interpret readings of direct/indirect linear measuring instruments | ||||
| MATH-1190 | Applied Trade Calculations | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to apply mathematical principles to trade-specific applications | ||||
| DRAF-1061 | Engineering Drawings | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to interpret engineered documentation and to perform sketching procedures | ||||
| Level 2 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
| MACH-3072 | Metallurgy | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to describe elements of non-ferrous metals and the heat-treating and testing of ferrous metal | ||||
| MACH-3073 | Metrology-Measuring & Checking | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to operate, and interpret readings of direct/indirect linear measuring instruments, inspection and checking gauges, indicating gauges and comparators and surface texture gauges | ||||
| MACH-3061 | Turning Technology | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to operate a lathe to drill and bore holes, turn internal and external recesses and grooves, part-off workpieces, turn internal tapers/angles, cut external and internal screw threads and turn eccentrics. | ||||
| MACH-3060 | Milling Technology | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to operate milling machines to mill surfaces and forms; counter bore holes; drill and ream holes and mill geometric shapes using a rotary table on a dividing head. | ||||
| MACH-3058 | Cylindrical Grinding Technology | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to operate surface grinding machines to surface grind horizontal, vertical and angular flat surfaces; and surface grind parallel surfaces | ||||
| MACH-3059 | CNC Turning Technology | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to set up and operate a CNC turning centre to perform linear and circular machining by entering and verifying programs | ||||
| MATH-3076 | Applied Trade Calculations, Charts & Tab | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to apply mathematical principles to trade-specific applications. | ||||
| DRAF-3030 | Engineering Drawings/CAD Data/Layout | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to interpret engineered documentation such as language, symbols, tolerances, allowances, gear, cam and bearing designation, perform sketching procedures and develop an operation plan for machining parts. | ||||
| Level 3 | ||||
| Take all of the following Mandatory Courses: | ||||
| MACH-5029 | Metallurgy | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to perform ferrous heat treating and to describe the properties and characteristics of machineable plastics | ||||
| MACH-5030 | Metrology-Measuring & Checking | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to describe the fundamentals of measuring, checking, gauging equipment and to operate and interpret the readings of an optical comparator and CMM machine. | ||||
| MACH-5034 | Complex Turning Technology | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to set up and operate a lathe to turn internal or external tapers, angles and profiles, cut ACME and multiple start threads and to perform trepanning and tool post grinding. | ||||
| MACH-5031 | Complex Milling Technology | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to set up and operate milling machines to perform helical and cam milling and to mill complex geometric shapes | ||||
| MACH-5033 | Complex Grinding Techniques | 1 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to perform end mill sharpening and internal grinding. | ||||
| MACH-5032 | Machining Centre Computerized NC/CNC | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to enter and verify a CNC program to perform linear and circular machining operations on a machining centre | ||||
| MATH-5021 | Applied Trade Calculations-Charts/Tables | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to apply mathematical principles to trade-specific applications | ||||
| DRAF-5017 | Complex Engineering Drawings | 3 | ||
| This course is designed to enable the apprentice to interpret engineering drawings to determine geometric tolerancing and dimensioning | ||||
| Program Residency | ||||
| Students Must Complete a Minimum of 14 credits in this program at Fanshawe College to meet the Program Residency requirement and graduate from this program | ||||