Construction Technology - Carpentry Emphasis

Through lectures, demonstrations, shop exercises, and campus work projects, students are prepared for employment in the residential-commercial carpentry construction industry. The goal of the program is to prepare students eventually to become leaders at many levels in the construction field: journeyman carpenter, job site foreman, construction superintendent, project manager, front office administrator, or owner of a contracting firm.

The program provides thorough instruction and training in residential and small commercial building construction through lectures and shop demonstrations. Special emphasis is placed on understanding the layout of difficult framing applications. The program also covers the processes and procedures necessary for carrying out construction projects from start to finish. Students in this program take courses in the technical, business, logistical, and management aspects of the construction industry. In the senior year, students take either the advanced trade track or construction management track, which leads to a Certificate of Undergraduate Study (CUGS) in Construction Management from Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.

The ability of students to apply theory to hand skills is monitored through shop projects requiring skill levels of increasing difficulty and through serving the college on supervised building maintenance, renovation, and new construction assignments.