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Texas State Technical College in Marshall received a new UMC 500 Haas CNC 5 axis machine for the college’s Precision Machining Technology program.
Texas State Technical College in Marshall received a new UMC 500 Haas CNC 5 axis machine for the college’s Precision Machining Technology program.
Texas State Technical College in Marshall received a new UMC 500 Haas CNC 5 axis machine for the college’s Precision Machining Technology program.
Texas State Technical College in Marshall received a new UMC 500 Haas CNC 5 axis machine for the college’s Precision Machining Technology program.
MARSHALL — Students at Texas State Technical College in Marshall soon will have a new piece of machinery to work with after a recent special delivery at the campus.
TSTC Marshall Provost Bart Day was on hand with Precision Machining Technology Instructor Danny Nixon and other campus administrators and staff this past week as the college received a new UMC 500 Haas CNC machine.
“This machine will bring us more in line with where manufacturing is right now in the industry,” Nixon said.
The CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machine, which weighs 12,500 pounds, cost $170,000.
The college’s precision machining technology course will allow students to earn a certificate or an associate’s degree.
Nixon said the two-year associate’s degree program will produce many students who will be hired as a machinist right after graduation.
“Companies like Komatsu and SpaceX would hire machinists,” he said. “Machinists can make anywhere from about $42,000 a year starting out, all the way up to about $70,000 or $80,000, depending on their time on the job and experience.”
Day said almost everyone, every day comes into contact with or uses something a machinist made.
“Machining nowadays consists mostly of programing and learning these CNC mills,” Day said. “Almost everything you touch in daily life, from cell phones to engines, mining equipment, car rims, boat impellers and aerospace defense, a machinist has had to get it to that final product.”
Nixon said the precision machining technology program has more than doubled its number of machines in the past several years, adding several new CNC mills.
Day said TSTC Marshall is in the progress of expanding several of its programs, renovating its facilities to provide larger classroom areas and larger lab areas.
“As we shift more to performance-based education, we want to provide labs both day and night to accommodate more of the non-traditional students,” Day said. “Post the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing more of a need for a hybrid education experience, allowing students to take a mixture of online lecture and day or nighttime labs, working around their work or family life.”
To learn more about the programs offered at TSTC Marshall, visit www.tstc.edu/campuses/marshall .
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