Black River Technical College (BRTC) Machine Tool Technology (MTT) Students met and measured a sweet rescue puppy named Nubbins Tuesday.
Six-month-old Nubbins was born with both of his front legs deformed causing him to have trouble getting around. The BRTC MTT students will manufacture, from scratch, either a wheelchair or prosthetics for Nubbins, so his mobility will be greatly improved. To keep updated on the MTT programs progress on Nubbins wheelchair/prosthetics follow BRTC on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter.
Nubbins is waiting for his fur ever home and currently resides at the Greene County Animal Farm that can be contacted at (870)240-8117 or via Facebook.
The Machine Tool Technology program consists of a wide variety of machining. Machinists and Toolmakers design and create prototypes, fixtures, jigs, and tooling/dies from which most metal and other manufactured items are made, which includes large heavy machinery to small hand tools. Working in a modern, fully-equipped machine shop, students in the machine tool technology program gain the knowledge and skills needed to cut, machine, mill/turn, metals and 3d print polymers/carbon/onyx when regarding NIMS assigned projects.
This high-precision trade requires development of high demand skills in the use of hand tools, precision measuring instruments, testing equipment, and basic, automatic, and computer-numerically-controlled (CNC) machine tools and programming. The program also covers heat treating tool steel and alloying material, as well as accident prevention, leadership, and quality control.