Welcome and I believe your on the right track. I think people will want to learn being able to see end results.
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I just feel I need to add and remind and express my appreciation for Titan and his team at Titans of CNC. The building block and rocket series is such a gift to educators such as I. It provides the variety of processes, includes most of the basics of machining, peaks the interest and curiosity of the students. It is challenging and goal oriented, such that a student in my 525 hour is hard pressed to complete all 20 projects in addition to the other things I must teach. Then I see this forum and Facebook page grow exponentially in members and marvel how the Titan group has broadened their free (remind you it is free and remind you it costs lots of time, material and effort) examples. Sometimes I feel we ask too much of them when we are always asking, can you show how to do this material, this type of machine tool, etc. How about a great shout out to Titan and his team to show our appreciation. BOOM!!
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This is pretty awesome, I teach at a makerspace and we use solidworks and Mechsoft currently, however i am getting everything ready to introduce fusion 360 into our post processor server so we can expand to that software as well, but my current project is creating a blackboard learn compatible version of the curriculum that way i can track progress and success without the students manually turning in work
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If you watch this video, you will see some Titan parts being machined and designed in both the CNC Machining segment and the CAD segment at Southern Tech (www.sotech.edu). Here is current link for video - SouthernTech Full Programs Marketing HighRes - YouTube
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I have two questions relating to embedding the curriculum into a school program. I teach for a community college right next to Boeing Everett. I am building a program from scratch to meet the needs of the aerospace suppliers in the area. The first question is to those that are already using the Titan curriculum: approx. how many hours would you estimate you dedicate to this part of your program. Second question: How many hours/days is the Live Training for instructors. This is something I would like to do, but would have to schedule around my class schedule.
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My class/course is geared toward learning the basic CNC operation of the Mill and Lathe and acquire NIMS credentials for CNC Milling operator and CNC Turning Operator, so there is a good bit of lab and theory embedded. I have planned a 120 hour course of instruction for Mill and a 120 hour course of instruction for turning, this is equal to a 9 week grading period for each machine, where the student attends class 3 hrs per day. My goal is for them to acquire the credential and finish 1M to 5M in mill and 84L to 88L in lathe. Later in the CNC Milling or CNC Turning programming, setup and operations courses do they finish the other 5 lathe or mill projects. Regarding your question about live training for instructors, I am not sure what training you are asking about.
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Thanks a lot, that gives me a lot to work with. We currently teach a tooling certification class that teaches all manual skills and I am developing the follow up to it which will involve the CNC mill, waterjet, plasma cutter and laser cutter. I put a CNC lathe on my wish list for this years budget so I have all of it. I’m going to build it into the curriculum and hope the good preparation vibes produce money. The live training I mentioned is the live workshops at the Titan production facility in Cali that was mentioned on the Academy website. Thanks again for your input.
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I would go fill out the online form for the Instructor training that was listed in the Live Workshop page. Someone affiliated with the Cali shop would then contact you.
You might also try and locate a Small Group facility that may be close to home for you.
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To echo @StephenHadwin’s suggestion, you should definitely look into joining an Academy Small Group in your area. One day, when you do have CNCs in your facility, perhaps you could start your own!
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I have a Haas VF5TR , a plasma cutter, waterjet and laser cutter to work with already in the shop. I use all of them, for projects in the shop and tooling we need for other classes. I have asked for a CNC lathe to add to the program. We teach a tooling class amongst other things. I am developing a class to utilize what we have along with a mold making class to compliment our composites curriculum.
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Hi Stephen- would you consider sharing your Canvas export of your Titans class?
mtbowie@capousd.org
Which LMS are you using? moodle. blackboard, or canvas? I have the Titan mill and lathe projects scattered across 4 courses, but I can share how I deliver and grade a single part
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We are using Canvas and I was just about to build the 1M block assignment when I found your posts.
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Stephen, I just got hired to be an instructor to a local community college. I was wondering if you have a course outline that you follow or any documents to help me. Its a mill/lathe g code class and a machining process class. Thanks
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@JScharp congrats on the teacher job! If your do Facebook there’s a Titan of cnc group with lots of fellow teachers there that can be helpful also!
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@JScharp This is my program syllabus and I have attached a more detailed syllabus. I first introduce students to basic measurement, safety, terminology and tools, then onto process planning, layout, types of operations, then we deep dive into CNC milling and turning. I use all 10 of the building block and rocket series in a course of a 10 month program. Dropbox - 3D CNC Machining Fundamentals 2020-2021.pdf - Simplify your life
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I tried to open that link up but its only one page, i see it says 1 of 17 but no other pages. Thanks
@JScharp not sure why, but link is entire 17 pages. I will PM
Hi @StephenHadwin ,
I am having the students starting to do the Titans mill building blocks currently as well and would love to see how you deliver and grade a single part. Wondering if you grade on the CAD, CAM, and machining portions or what? What ever you are willing to share I would be very appreciative to have.
Thank you,
Kyle