“I think Mastercam is an incredible way of teaching problem solving, and I think that’s the most transferable skill for moving into any occupation. Students are provided with a set of tools and a goal, and they have to figure out which tool to use to do each operation. Later …

“By the time they reach their senior year, they are getting into some pretty advanced operations such complex multi-tool jobs where they may have to set up ten tools on a machine and do some extensive programming operations in Mastercam that would require many tools for both turning and milling.”