• You have direct access to MDL graduates to interview them for vacant jobs.

• Your MDL graduate employees have access to continued education as a registered TNCC student.

MDL Graduates Earn Specific Credentials:

• Six (6) Continuing Education Units. (It is planned to provide College credits for the program. Once approved, all graduates will be awarded the related number of credits.)

• Certificate of Completion listing all accomplishments.

• Silver Level Career Readiness Certificate Plus (CRC+) – confirms skill level 4 was achieved in WorkKeys Reading for Information, Locating Information, Applied Mathematics, and WorkKeys Applied Technology or Observation.

• OSHA 10-hour General Industry Certificate.

MDL Entrance Requirements Assure Employees of Readiness Levels:

• Career Readiness Certificate, CRC, Silver (Level 4 in Applied Mathematics, Reading for Information, Locating Information).

• Clear drug test.
  

• Satisfactory background checks.
  

• Successful interview with small panel of peer employers.

MDL Graduates have completed and been evaluated to the following required standards:

The following skills will have been completed and evaluated to the
required standards:

• Completed the CRC+, to include WorkKeys Applied Technology Level 3 or Observation Level 4.*

• Complete all foundation courses to pre-requisite required standards.

• Wear PPE correctly, to include eye-wear, gloves, footwear, ears and head protection.
  

• Measure and mark specified material to an accuracy of 1/32” or 1 mm using appropriate tools such as a tape measure and scale.

• Convert fractions of units (down to 1/32” and 1 mm) into decimals and vice versa.

• Perform simple computations involving adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing in whole numbers.

• Perform simple computations involving adding, subtracting and multiplying fractions and decimals.
  Record lengths of lines when formed into shapes such as a rectangular, circle, triangle or trapezium.

• Mark lengths accurately (to 1/32” or 1 mm) on a variety of materials such as aluminum, steel, iron, plastic, foam.

• Determine and record dimensions of objects such as a cube, cone, pyramid, sphere or trapezoid and pipe.

• Perform computations on simple volumes using provided formulae.

• Set up a simple job by transferring dimensions from a plan to a work-piece. Identify the tolerances required to be met and how that might be achieved.

• Identify, compute and list in sequence the resources/materials required to complete a task given a plan.

• Communicate materials requirements for a project to a “team” member and negotiate delivery for a specified time frame.

• Describe a typical manufacturing process flow using a schematic diagram.
  Correctly identify the stages of a given manufacturing process involving up to 12 individual stages.

• Match correctly 3-D images with a selection of 2-D drawings e.g., cube, cone, sphere, pipe, hexagonal tube and complex objects possessing curved surfaces, valleys, peaks and holes.

• In a simulated manufacturing scenario identify errors and faults and state the necessary corrective action to be taken.

• Participate in a project.

• Show tolerance of and demonstrate support for others whose performance, approach and attitude differ from you.

* The skills associated with these levels are at ……
http://www.act.org/workkeys/assess/foundational.html