SHEET METAL TECHNOLOGY
Course of Study
The Sheet Metal instructional program prepares individuals to lay out, fabricate, erect or install, and
maintain items made of steel, copper, stainless steel, and aluminum using hand tools and machines such as cornice brakes, forming rolls, and squaring shears. Instruction in sheet metal work con be placed in two basic categories: (1) Building Trades Sheet Metal Work and (2) Precision Sheet Metal Work. The building trades sheet metal workers construct and install various types of ducts which are connected to form systems through which air is passed. These systems are referred to as heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems. They are needed in homes, stores, apartments, offices, schools, hotels, shops, airplanes, and trains. Building trades sheet metal workers make and install gutters, down spouts, blow pipes, and industrial exhaust systems. Precision or production sheet metal workers employed in industry produce parts used in various types of products and equipment for aircraft, missiles, electronics, communications, data processing, computers, defense, military, photography, radiography, restaurants, food processing, air handling, laboratories, appliances, spaceships, shipbuilding, sign manufacturing, and transportation.
This curriculum was developed by utilizing the national standards in the sheet metal industry as established by the Association of Building Contractors (ABC), 1995.
Upon the successful completion of the minimum of 32 semester hours of required college credit, the student will be eligible for a Certificate in Sheet Metal.
Technical students who enroll without the ACT have until mid-term to take the ACT and receive a qualifying score of 14 or higher.
For more information contact Ms. Susan Walker at swalker@msdelta.edu or (662)246-6264
