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APTR Program Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the PHNSY Apprentice Training Program, students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge and skills to work effectively with people.
  • Make clear and effective presentations to individuals and groups.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of basic safety and health principles, techniques, regulations, professional guidelines, factors of causation, techniques of investigation and reporting, and environment effects of hazards.
  • Demonstrate basic mechanical drawing skills to communicate ideas graphically to others through the use of sketches and rough drawings and use various types of blueprints to perform work-related functions.
  • Apply technical math skills to analyze and solve work-related problems (algebraic and geometric skills needed in working with formulas and simple equations, geometric figures, areas, volumes, proportions, and the metric system of measurement) and, solve shop problems by using trigonometry.
  • Apply technical writing skills to conduct research and create reports related to work documents and other shipyard related tasks (proposals, progress reports, letters, memos, resumes).
  • Apply basic laws of physics to solve work-related problems.
  • Apply knowledge and skills gained in the classroom to perform work duties on the waterfront.