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The Manufacturing Career Cluster focuses on preparing students for employment in careers that relate to the planning and performing the processing of materials into intermediate or final products and related professional and technical support activities such as production planning and control, maintenance and manufacturing/process engineering.
Pathway Chart
The Manufacturing and Production Pathway prepares students for careers in a manufacturing and production environment by developing skills in forming and shaping materials into useful products using sound techniques and Lean Manufacturing principles.
Suggested high school courses that support the Career Pathway. Courses do not count towards Pathway completion.
Secondary Math 2
Choose one or more of the following courses.
To be a concentrator, you must pass one of the following courses and one explorer course.
To be a completer you must pass a concentrator course and enough courses to equal 3.0 credits in this Pathway.
CTE Internship
Apprenticeship(External Web Content)(External Web Content)
Apprenticeship Utah
Pathway Chart
The Welding and Manufacturing Pathway prepares students with skills that involve turning materials into finished products using skills to design products, set up and safely operate tools and equipment, fabricate with different materials, and prep and finish completed products. Testing of finished product and evaluation of the processes involved are important steps in every manufacturing process.
Choose one or more of the following courses.
To be a concentrator, you must pass one of the following courses and one explorer course.
To be a completer you must pass a concentrator course and enough courses to equal 3.0 credits in this Pathway.
Welding-Pipefitting
Welding-Structural Fitting
CTE Internship
Apprenticeship(External Web Content)(External Web Content)
Apprenticeship Utah