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FTCC Opening Doors to New Opportunities by DARYL NOBLES • Mobile learning programs promoting access to online courses and learning This past school year, 10 North Carolina Community Colleges, including FTCC, applications using iPads and a new Mac Lab. joined forces to form the North Carolina Advanced Manufacturing Alliance to educate • Curriculum enhanced by iTunes University, digital content and manufacturing and train unemployed and dislocated workers to enter the workforce with specific training and credentials needed by North Carolina employers. In addition to traditional career guidance During the month of April, FTCC hosted a certificates, diplomas and associate degrees, students Manufacturing Awareness Week with activities will earn Career Readiness Certification as well as centered on occupations related to manufacturing industry credentials valued by employers. for middle school, high school and college The alliance was successful in securing a federal students to become familiar with and aware of the grant through the U.S. Department of Labor opportunities that are available locally. Displays and partnering with North Carolina's leading about FTCC programs were available, an open employers to provide resources for changing the house with business and industry representatives was way workers are trained and students succeed. held, campus tours were conducted by local middle This change will offer a comprehensive skills and high schools and Collier Cropp (Labor Relations assessment, provide a network of student support, Manager at Goodyear) met with our students at the implement state-of-the-art technology and match first Lunchbox Speaker Series to discuss closing the student internships with industry, creating a pipeline skills gap in manufacturing, a presentation that was of students trained to meet the needs of employers informative for our students and faculty. and putting our friends and neighbors back to work FTCC is proud to be a part of the N.C. Advanced in high-quality careers such as machining. FTCC, along with other N.C. colleges, joined forces to help train stuManufacturing Alliance and work with our sister The FTCC Computer Integrated Machining dents and displaced workers to take on manufacturing jobs. community colleges to educate and train a high Program prepares students for a career that performance workforce for careers in advanced moves a concept to reality through the design manufacturing and meet the employment needs of process to produce a final product. A wide variety business and industry. of metalworking equipment from manual machinery to new computerized CNC For more information or to see how you can become a part of this exciting program, (Computer Numeric Control) and EDM (Electrical Discharge Machine) machinery please contact Vanessa Cogdell, NCAMA program coordinator at in the newly-equipped FTCC Machining Lab are provided for training. Computer cogdellv@faytechcc.edu or Gary Smith, Machining program coordinator Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Machining (CAM) software are used in at smithg@faytechcc.edu or our new classroom computer lab to prepare students to meet employer standards. DARYL NOBLES, FTCC Dean of Engineering, 910-678-8427. The Computer Integrated Machining Program provides: Public Service, and Applied Technology, • Flexible learning options Contributing Writer. COMMENTS? Editor@ • Structured student support services upandcomingweekly.com. 16 UCW APRIL 24-30, 2013 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM