The Manufacturing career cluster focuses on planning, managing, and performing the processing of materials into intermediate or final products and related professional and technical support activities such as production planning and control, maintenance, and process engineering.
This career cluster includes occupations ranging from welder and machinist to industrial engineering technician and semiconductor processing technician.
Salary and job descriptions for select careers in this cluster:
Manufacturing Production Technician
Campuses with Programs in Manufacturing
High School
- Akins ECHS
- Anderson High School
- LASA
- LBJ
CTE Programs of Study/Offered Courses
Robotics and Automation Technology
- Principles of Manufacturing
- Principles of Applied Engineering
- Robotics I & II
- Manufacturing Engineering Technology I
- Engineering Design & Presentation I
- Practicum in Manufacturing
Advanced Manufacturing and Machinery Mechanics
- Principles of Manufacturing
- Digital Electronics
- Agricultural Mechanics & Metal Technologies
- Practicum in Manufacturing
- Diversified Manufacturing
Manufacturing Technology
- Principles of Manufacturing
- Metal Fabrication and Machining I
- Precision Metal Manufacturing I & II