The Certified Composites Technician Advanced Composites program (CCT-AC) was developed for aerospace and high- performance composites industry manufacturing and repair professionals. It provides a national composites certification standard to meet industry identified skill areas for current and future advanced composites professionals.
Apply matrix and fiber technologies to correctly mix materials, identify specifications, select reinforcements, and work with advanced resin and thermoplastic systemsInterpret advanced composite design requirements to perform process modeling, understand work instructions, and apply balanced laminate and residual-stress conceptsExecute advanced molding processes to properly handle materials, perform debulks, mix resins, manage working life, and apply vacuum bagging and potting techniquesImplement health and safety practices to ensure safe machining, CNC operations, PPE use, hazard mitigation, and compliance with composite manufacturing standardsApply core material fabrication methods to construct and bond sandwich structures using proper vacuum bagging, co-cure, and co-bonding techniquesManage composite tooling operations to select molds, perform mold care, make tooling repairs, and utilize automated layup and fiber-placement equipmentConduct composite inspection and testing to detect defects, apply NDI techniques, document quality control, and analyze testing data using proper inspection technologiesPerform composite bonding and fastening to join composite–composite and composite–metal materials and apply lightning-strike protection methodsExecute composite structural repairs to restore laminate and sandwich structures using proper layer identification, damage removal, scarfing, and hot-bonder field repair techniques