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Industry and Trades Education Center
You'll learn in our brand new, state-of-the-art Industry and Trades Education Center, with spacious workrooms, modern classrooms, and high tech equipment.
Learn about internship opportunities through Cooperative Education
Get work experience and make career connections while earning credit through a Cooperative Education internship, all as a part of your degree!
What you’ll earn
In this field, you can work as a journey-level carpenter, general contractor, specialty trade contractor or independent contractor in light or heavy construction as well as many other related trades in the construction industry.
Associate Degree
Our program trains you on the technical skills and knowledge of the construction industry. You'll learn practical skills with experience instructors, like to cutting, fitting, and assembling wood and other materials for the construction of residential and commercial buildings and other structures.
In this field you can work as a journey-level carpenter, general contractor, specialty trade contractor or independent contractor in light or heavy construction as well as many other related trades in the construction industry.
You'll learn at off-campus site as well as the classroom, to get hands on with your learning. Instruction involves off-campus sites that may vary each term. Different projects are reviewed to fit the nature of work and desired skills you seek.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Using wood and other materials for building construction
- Blueprint reading
- Industry safety standards
- Math and problem-solving skills
- Surveying tools and building layout
AFTER LANE
After graduating, you'll be prepared to work in the residential and commercial building construction field, building homes and businesses to make our communities better. This in-demand career field has many employment opportunities. You could also become self-employed, as roughly one-fourth of construction workers are.
Stackable Certificates
Construction Technology, 1-yr Certificate
Though not as in-depth at the two-year program, our one-year certificate will prepare you to enter the construction industry with valuable skills.
Not sure which is for you? Learn more about the types of degrees & certificates Lane has to offer
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Lane Community College
4000 E. 30th Avenue
Eugene, OR 97405
Rest of term: 8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
LCC is closed on Fridays in the summer.