On Thursday, the College of Aeronautics and Engineering’s Foundry program was awarded a 5-year accreditation by the Foundry Accreditation Foundation (FEF), an honor the College has earned since 1969.
Trent True, lecturer and FEF Key Professor leads the program which prepares students for employment in the metal casting industry. Graduates of the program leave ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Engineering, Foundry Technology. Program courses materials and processes, cast metals, metallurgy and material science, solid modeling and solidification and applied their knowledge and skills in the capstone course, foundry tooling and pattern making.
Students will also have taken several management courses and have experience with programmable logic controllers, hydraulics and pneumatics and computer-aided manufacturing.