Summer 2026

Poor communication creates chaos in the workplace and costs organizations millions of dollars each year in lost productivity, mistakes, and lost customers. Learn how to ensure your communication is clear and direct so that listeners receive information accurately. Improving your verbal communication skills can enhance working relationships and increase your success. This course is part of the Essential Skills Certificate. Can be taken as a standalone class.

Conflict is inevitable; the key is dealing with conflict in a way that produces positive outcomes. This course will help you learn how to work through situations and avoid the traps that damage relationships and negatively impact productivity and results. You will learn proven methods to recognize the signs of conflict and apply a process to resolve conflict effectively. This course is part of the Essential Skills Certificate. Can be taken as a standalone class.

Conflict is inevitable; the key is dealing with conflict in a way that produces positive outcomes. This course will help you learn how to work through situations and avoid the traps that damage relationships and negatively impact productivity and results. You will learn proven methods to recognize the signs of conflict and apply a process to resolve conflict effectively. This course is part of the Essential Skills Certificate. Can be taken as a standalone class.

Employers rank critical thinking as the most important skill for employees in the next five years. Critical thinking helps you step back, examine your thoughts, test assumptions, and process information more effectively. This course helps you identify your thinking style and follow a process to think critically, solve problems and make informed decisions. This course is part of the Essential Skills Certificate. Can be taken as a standalone class.

Employers rank critical thinking as the most important skill for employees in the next five years. Critical thinking helps you step back, examine your thoughts, test assumptions, and process information more effectively. This course helps you identify your thinking style and follow a process to think critically, solve problems and make informed decisions. This course is part of the Essential Skills Certificate. Can be taken as a standalone class.

When you take on an attitude of accountability, you empower yourself to be responsible, accomplish your goals, and demonstrate professionalism. You will gain strategies to avoid the blame game, overcome obstacles, manage expectations, and achieve your highest potential. This course is part of the Essential Skills Certificate. Can be taken as a standalone class.

When you take on an attitude of accountability, you empower yourself to be responsible, accomplish your goals, and demonstrate professionalism. You will gain strategies to avoid the blame game, overcome obstacles, manage expectations, and achieve your highest potential. This course is part of the Essential Skills Certificate. Can be taken as a standalone class.

Using a state-of-the-art Caterpillar simulator, the student will initially learn to perform a safety walkaround of a motor grader. Students will then learn the fundamentals of driving, including straight frame operation, articulated turning, and crab steering. Students will also learn rough and finish grading, v-ditching, ripping , scarifying, and other activities that require control over the placement of terrain.

Using a state-of-the-art Caterpillar simulator, the student will initially learn to perform a safety walkaround of a backhoe. Students will then learn the fundamentals of operation, including maneuvering, driving, braking, backfilling, trenching, and lifting materials with a backhoe loader.

This class will provide extensive practice of welding pipe using the gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) process, also known as TIG all the way welding. The final objective of the class will be welding 6 schedule 40 pipe in the 6G fixed position using TIG all the way.