Composites
The Composites program is a hands-on, in-depth overview of the processes involved in the development and production of composite products. Skills include tooling, fabrication, machining, assembly, quality assurance, repair, lay-up, vacuum bagging, and cure processing of wet laminating.
Careers in Composites include these categories:
- Designer: Designs the object to be manufactured and selects the processes to create it.
- Fabricator: Creates the product, whether it be wet layup or any of the other techniques used in composite structures.
- Repair technician: Repairs and makes small modifications to existing structures.
To prepare students for these careers, the curriculum was designed to meet these program outcomes:
- Solve technical mathematical problems (such as fiber resin ratio)
- Learn basic hand skills for the layup of composites materials using fiberglass, carbon fiber, epoxy and polyester resin
- Design molds and forms for the layup of fiberglass and carbon fiber materials
- Build and vacuum bag composite materials for room temperature cure and oven cure materials
- Create projects in composite materials showing how surface energy is increased and decreased
- Design for producibility and manufacturing ease
- Document technical activities in written and verbal reports
- Be prepared for successful employment
Students seeking a 2-year ATA degree in Advanced Manufacturing - Composites at Everett Community College, may pursue either a one year certificate or a two year Associate Degree. Some students pursuing an alternate pathway within Advanced Manufacturing (such as CAD) may elect to take one or more of the four composites courses as elective course(s). See the Composites curriculum guide 
for additional information.
This program was designed for people interested in becoming technicians. Students who are seeking more of a research/theoretical orientation, or students who are seeking to transfer to a four-year engineering program should contact Frank Cox at Edmonds Community College to develop a two-year transfer program to a 4-year baccalaureate program. To learn more, see the faculty link in the right bar or consult the Curriculum Guide for Composites .
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