| Show Launches Pilot Training Program lI The Apprenticeship Apprentice Apprentice- ship Program could be a pilot plan for future large corpora corpora- What is happening at Utah Technical College could be a peek hole preview of what direction specialized vocational and technical training will take in coming years What does the program do Its purpose is to train Ken Ken- employees for their jobs Curriculum for the program is developed from a job sis Usually members of a joint labor management apprenticeship apprentice apprentice- ship committee provide assistance assistance assistance assis assis- tance for the development of the program Important is that material taught have relevance to what the craftsman does on the job and what the craftsman must know in order to understand and perform manipulative and productive productive productive pro pro- work Job analysis further provides in developing a teaching teaching teaching teach teach- ing line lesson sheets and tests Important in the program is the use of texts and modern visual aids Utah Technical College cooperates cooperates cooperates co co- co- co operates with the pr program Important to understand understand understand under under- stand is that training for the program does not necessarily train a tradesman or technicians in the wider scope of that trade or techno techno- logy Most of the students meet at Utah Tech for Saturday classes Others utilize evening hours during the week for train train- ing provides tuition and workbooks while students must buy their own text books Programs presently offered in inthe inthe inthe the Utah Tech oriented curriculum curriculum curriculum lum include welding machine shop brick masons printers boilermakers electricians pipe pipe- fitters carpenters repair gang machinists general repair machinists machinists machinists ma ma- machinists and auto- auto diesel mechanics The college coordinates its training with the students student's on- on the-job the experience Special programs offered at Utah Tech that workers arent aren't likely to pickup on the job include in include include in- in clude applied mathematics drafting blueprint reading shop layout sketching physics and other applied sciences Other instruction provided deals with labor safety laws regulations and ordinances industrial and public relations safety concepts concepts concepts con con- and the use of tools equipment and materials re related related related re- re to the trade Two national agencies share responsibility for the apprenticeship apprenticeship program The program The Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training and the Division of Vocational L ij t t. t L. L I J ir c 9 t I I r I ir i 1 f. f Lk k I f M. M S III Y Utah Tech is playing a bigger and bigger role in the development of Corp employees Machinist Machinist Ma Ma- training is one of the large areas of raining draining p provided by Utah Tech y and Technical Education US U.S. Office of Education BAT SAT works with the US U.S. Department Department Department De De- De- De of Labor and in cooperation cooperation cooperation co co- co- co operation with state apprenticeship apprentice apprentice- ship agencies The Federal Committee on Apprenticeships helps establish labor standards wages hours quotes length of apprenticeships a and n d similar other conditions under which the apprentice works Providing assistance for the Division of Vocational and Technical Technical Technical Tech Tech- Education are state and andI I local o 0 c a I educational agencies These groups help provide the related technical and supplemental supplemental supple supple- mental instruction for tices employers have placed the spotlight specialized training training training train train- ing at Utah Tech This should open the door for other industries industries industries indus indus- tries throughout the state to launch training programs of their own |
