Academic Catalog

Plastics Manufacturing (CERT)

Department website: https://www.cerritos.edu/plastics/

The Plastic Manufacturing Technology Program provides the diverse student body in the surrounding regional community with advanced education in plastic manufacturing technology and serves as a bridge between students who seek job skills, industry certifications or a Certificate of Achievement for employment. The Program provides a high quality of instruction to achieve its objectives. The Certificate of Achievement in Plastics Manufacturing allows the student to learn specific techniques related to composite and plastic manufacturing. It also prepares the student to inspect the raw material and the produced parts by having a clear understanding of dimensioning, tolerancing, and designing of plastic parts in the engineering design technology department. Some of the jobs available for holders of this certificate are plastics manufacturing technician, injection molding machine operator, injection molding setup technician, manufacturing associate, associate plastics manufacturing engineer, junior manufacturing engineer and similar positions.
 

Program Student Learning Outcomes

  • Student demonstrate safe work habits around plastics machinery.
  • Students communicate clear technical instructions.
  • Students differentiate between the various types of plastic.
  • Students employ shop drawings to produce plastic parts to drawing specifications.
  • Students identify the specific applications of plastic resign systems.
  • Students recognize the process for manufacturing various plastic parts.
  • Students use percentages to mix resigns, fillers, and colors.
  • Students utilize ratios and fractions to mix materials.

Program Requirements

Code Number Course Title Units
Required Courses
ENGT 111Plastics Technology3.0
ENGT 116Blueprint Reading and Production4.0
ENGT 117Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing and Model Based Definition4.0
ENGT 209Plastics Injection Molding I3.0
ENGT 103Introduction to Engineering Design Using Inventor3.0-4.0
or ENGT 131 Design Fundamentals Including 3D Modeling
or ENGT 259 Solidworks Introduction
Total Units17-18

Recommended Courses

Code Number Course Title Units
ENGT 251Composites Fabrication and Tooling4.5
ENGT 259Solidworks Introduction4.0
ENGT 260Advanced Modeling Using SolidWorks4.0
ENGT 263SolidWorks for Industrial Mold Tools Design4.0
ENGT 281Sustainable Toy Design with Solidworks3.0
MTT 100Machine Tool Introduction2.0
MTT 131Geometric Tolerance Inspection using Verisurf3.0
MTT 180Robotics for Computer Numerically Controlled Machines3.0
NPD 101Innovation Using Rapid Prototyping3.0
NPD 103Tooling and Materials for New Product Development3.0
ET 101Principles of Engineering Technology3.0
ET 103Industrial Process Control2.0