(HUTTO, Texas) – Texas State Technical College’s East Williamson County campus is expanding offerings of Precision Machining Technology courses to accommodate nontraditional learning schedules.
New Precision Machining Technology students will be able to begin their education at night beginning in the upcoming spring semester.
Apolinar Ruiz, the program’s team lead, said the school recognized that there are people who want an education but cannot attend day classes.
“Our goal is to create opportunities for people who are working to get a degree and advance in their field,” he said.
The spring semester will offer four evening courses: Beginning Machine Shop, Machine Shop Mathematics, Precision Tools and Measurement and Print Reading for Machining Trades. Two of the courses are offered online and students will have the option to come to campus for instructor assistance.
“The night program is designed so that night students will finish their education in the same number of semesters as day students,” Ruiz said. “We worked hard to make sure those students wouldn’t have to do an extra semester.”
In Texas, CNC (computer numerical control) tool programmers earn an average annual salary of $62,160, according to onetonline.org, which forecast the number of such positions to grow 47% in the state from 2020 to 2030.
TSTC offers an Associate of Applied Science degree and a certificate of completion in Precision Machining Technology, as well as a certificate of completion in CNC Machine Operator, at its East Williamson County, Fort Bend County, Harlingen, Marshall, North Texas and Waco campuses.
Precision Machining Technology is one of nine programs at TSTC that have money-back guarantees. For more information, visit tstc.edu/mbg.
Registration for TSTC’s spring semester is underway. To learn more, visit tstc.edu.
