Anson Technical College - Yearbook (Polkton, NC)

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HEATING, VENTILATING AND AIR-CONDITIONING HEATING, VENTILATING AND AIR CONDITIONING This curriculum is designed to give the students practical knowledge that will enable them to become capable servicemen in the industry. The principal objective has been to outline the required technical and related instruction to enable them to understand the basic principles involved in the construction, operation, and maintenance of equipment. Job opportunities exist with companies that specialize in air conditioning, sheet metal, and commercial refrigeration installation and service. The service man is employable in areas of sales, maintenance, installation, and in growing fields of truck and trailer refrigeration.

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MARKETING AND RETAILING Marketing and Retailing is a two-year course of study designed to prepare individuals for positions related to sales, advertising, and retailing. Opportunities for employment are increasing in the Piedmont area. Individuals will be needed to fill the additional jobs in many marketing related fields. Career opportunities continue to increase in retail, wholesale, and industrial selling. In addition, many trained people are needed to fill marketing positions in the banking, finance, insurance, transportation, communication, advertising, and tourist-related fields. Students who desire to enter the business world will find this program of 36 great value toward a successful career.

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INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE AND MACHINIST PROGRAMS The Industrial Maintenance Tech- nology curriculum is designed spe- cifically to educate persons to main- tain, repair and replace sophisticat- ed production equipment such as automated and numerically con- trolled machines used by industry. Training in theory and practical sl ills will provide the knowledge needed to inspect, diagnose, repair and install industrial, electrical and mechanical equipment. The curriculum is structured to pr ovide employable skills early in the program in areas such as weld- ing, machine shop, hydraulics and pneumatics metallurgy and electric- ity. Students who demonstrate lead- ership qualities, aptitude and inter- est in the field may continue the sec- ond year of the program to study maintenance management, rigging, material handling, quality control and supervision. The machinist curriculum is de- signed to give individuals the oppor- tunity to acquire the basic skills and related technological information necessary to gain employment as a machinist. The machinist is a skilled metalworker who shapes metal by suing machine tools and hand tools. The machinist must be able to set up and operate the machine tools found in the machine shop. The ma- chinist is able to select the proper tools and materials required of each job to insure the piece is cut and finished to the specifications of the job. The machinist uses precision measuring instruments to insure his work is accurate. The machinist must also know the characteristics of metals, so that an- nealing and hardening of tools and metal parts can be accomplished in the process of turning a block of metal into an intricate precise part.