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It's pretty common for machinists in most industries (including aerospace) to lack college degrees. Studying engineering in college typically has little relevan
by starpilot 16y ago
It's pretty common for machinists in most industries (including aerospace) to lack college degrees. Studying engineering in college typically has little relevance to operating a bandsaw. A safety knowledge test before having access to the shop is standard and common sense, not elitist.
- yardie 16y agoThey do have degrees, just not the one you'll get from a 4-year university. The time of getting a job at the factory right after high school is long past. The machine tools these days are quite complex and very expensive. Like 6 axis CNCs with incredibly flexibly degrees of freedom. Also, a lot of modern machinists have, even, a basic understanding of materiel science. They might not have taken all the courses to graduate with an engineering degree but they aren't that far off.