Industrial skills for free at NMYC

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Language

English

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The Republic Volume I (No. 2) 1-15 October 1975

Year

1975

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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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Industrial skills (or free at NMYC As our national economy industrializes, the demand for skilled workers and technicians becomes tighter and tighter. Consequently too, the pay for skilled workers grows higher. The National Manpower and Youth Council trains for free, unemployed adults and out-of-schbol youths in various trade skills. Be low, its major course offerings are listed. Take ad vantage of this free training. For particulars, go to the National Manpower Skills located along South Superhighway, Taguig, Rizal. Get started now! BNFI photo AUTOMOTIVE MECHANICS THE COURSE deals with the basic principles, processes and operations in volved in the automotive industry. It includes intensive training in repair, ser vice and maintenance of both gasoline and diesel engines. It also provides in structions on the principles of the fuel system and engine tune-up, power train, steering system and suspension. The course seeks to develop the manipulative skills of the trainees on body repair, general overhauling and trouble shoot ing under varying conditions. It is in tended to prepare the trainees for in teresting and well-paid jobs in the .field of automotive. Opportunities THE PRODUCTION and importation of more cars and engine-powered ma chines require a big number of trained service and repair men. Job opportuni ties are many for an automotive me chanic. To be an automechanic is a stepping stone to greater things. From there, the mechanic can move up to become service manager, parts manager, or sales manager of an automotive shop or dealer agency. He may someday be able to open a shop of his own and have other people work for him. Or if he has a good knowledge of automo biles, plus the desire to meet people, he may became an automotive salesman or a field representative of parjs manu facturers. He might move up to be a representative of an automotive manu facturer either within the factory or in a region. And he might even be invited to come into the factory where he would have the opportunity to work his way up through the offices or produc tion departments. Working conditions AS A CLASSIC trade since man mas tered the use of motorized vehicles to A * working’ THE IMPLEMENTATION of the workoriented high school curriculum, as di rected by President Marcos, will start on October 4 this year in t^e 2,000 public and private schools throughout the country. Under the new system, high school education will be a whole day affair and transport his goods and himself from place to place, cutting long-distance, travels to short pleasurable journeys, an automechanic could not be glamour ously dressed at work. With greasy coveralls, he has to crawl under chassis or open the hoods of vehicles to tinker with oily engines. He has to operate a set of mechanical tools, hydraulic presses or at times climb mammoth equipment stalled at working site. But the mechanic derives pleasure from .the thought that he can run vehicles to mOve man, money and material from stagnation that may put the nation’s economy to a stand still. Today auto mechanics are well paid in big service shops. ELECTRICAL TRADE THE COURSE in electricity deals with basic principles, installation, mainte nance and repair of light and power circuits. It involves the installation and repair of motor driven equipment like appliances and machineries. A trainee is required to concentrate in any special ization to enable him to get a job after completing the training requirements. Opportunities NUMEROUS FIELDS in electricity sprout out as a result of our growing agro-industrial economy. In addition, the government has launched a massive rural electrification program which will eventually create opportunities for elec triciansand electro-mechanics. This gives rise to different training schemes which are offered in various centers. On completion of his theoretical and practical training in any field of specialization, the trainee may become an electrical serviceman. Residential and industrial building wiring installer, fac tory electrician, appliance repairman, switch board and instrument mechanic; curriculum the current electives being offered as replacement for subjects that require work will be abolished. Among the new subjects to be offered next semester are agriculture, industrial, fishery, business, trade, au tomotive and other vocational subjects that will help instill love of work motor, transformer and generator re winder are some of the job opportuni ties awaiting the trainee. Working conditions ELECTRICITY is the modern-day genie doing numerous things to make the life of man enjoyable and comfortable. Care lessly handled, however, it is hazardous and dangerous. In its uncontrolled state, electricity has claimed lives and in most cases, through defective wiring, the source of conflagrations. To tame the power of electricity, to make it turn the wheels of industry, for the benefit of mankind and nations, there is a great need for electricians and electromechanics who consider the prac tice of safety a primary concern of thenjobs. This requires intelligence, presence of mind while at work, following the rules and regulations and adhering to standards in electrical works. ELECTRONICS THE COURSE prepares the trainees for entrance into the electronics indus try as radio and television servicemen, and other specialized fields like business machines, electronic computers and communication systems. The course provides for a thorough study of the fundamentals and principles of electronics, and the application and practices of the same in the operation and servicing of radio and television receivers. It also involves the use of test instruments and trainers in experiments and practical operation. It includes the fabrication of radio receivers, tube and semiconductor devices, plus actual ser vicing of radio and television sets. Opportunities A RADIO and television servicing trainee, after obtaining practical work experience can service any kind of radio and television sets, either vacuum tube type or transistorized. He can be employ ed as serviceman in medium shops or servicing outlets of manufacturers, or establish his own service shop. In indus try, he may become a designer of radio sets, a quality control technician,or aa assembler-operator of TV sets. He is ready for entrance to other related field in electronics such as a business machine operator/technician and communication equipment operator/technician. As a proprietor, he can eventually engage in assembling radio and TV parts or sets on his own or by sub-contracting with manufacturing firms. Working conditions Trainees in Electronics use basic trainer apparatuses and test instruments in laboratory experiments or exercises in probing electronic fundamentals. Ac tual radio and television receivers and a complete set of hand tools and power equipment are available for efficient servicing and fabrication works. The trainees work on laboratory tables equipped with complete set of test instruments which they actually use in the analysis and operation of components, circuits, stages and sys tems in electronics. MACHINE FITTING THE COURSE is designed to prepare the student in metal fabrication of ma chine parts with special emphasis on metal machinery, heat treatment and material testing. It gives him the neces sary knowledge in related theory and develops his manipulative skills in the use of the lathe, milling machine, shaper, surface grinder, drill press and other ma chine shop tools and equipment. The trainee is acquainted with the proper operations, safety and maintenance of metal working machines Opportunities A MACHINIST’S trade has many oppornities for promotion. Every machine shop foreman must have been promoted from the ranks. Practically, every su perintendent and every master mechanic of any industry manufacturing metal goods of any description is a machinist. Many draftsmen and successful manu facturers were once machinists. Working Conditions THE HAZARDOUS nature of industrial machine tools has long been recognized. So, from the very beginning of his ap prenticeship, the young man must learn to work safely. He must understand that working with other people in the shop is his business and that to keep himself as well as those working with him from accidents is also part of his attitude toward safety.

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