Engineering Career Academy
Are you a visual person?
Do you enjoy working with computers?
Do you find solving a problem a fun challenge?
If you answered yes, then a career in engineering may be for you!
Engineering appeals to individuals
who enjoy the challenge of learning how things work and
enjoy using
this knowledge
to improve the world in which they live! If you are
a creative thinker who enjoys hands-on design activities
and building things, a career in engineering could
be
for you. There are many engineering fields. Because
of this, a survey course, Introduction to Engineering,
is
often helpful to acquaint students with opportunities
in this diverse field of study.
Engineering degrees
are among the most highly paid of Bachelor's degrees
and span a very large number
of fields.
The most common engineering fields include Civil
Engineering , Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering
and
Chemical Engineering. Other fields include but are
not limited to, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering
and Industrial Engineering. Engineers commonly transition
to management positions in business and industry,
start their own companies, or use their engineering degree
to facilitate movement into other professional fields
such as patent law and medicine.
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Manufacturing Career
Academy
Do take pride in a job well
done?
Are you interested in creating
things?
Does working with machinery
and tools interest you?
Then a career in manufacturing
may be for you!
The manufacturing
academy is collaboration between
education
and industry
in advancing a world-class
comprehensive, relevant,
and integrated manufacturing
and
applied
engineering
education program. This industry-supported
academy will provide an integrated
system for students
which will
lead to advanced degrees.
It will also provide a pipeline
of educated
and
highly skilled
employees for manufacturing,
engineering and technology-based
companies.
Curriculum can
be a combination of traditional classroom
and on-line courses. Manufacturing
software will
be used to teach parametric
modeling and CNC Programming.
A core
of three classes developed
by the
drafting, machine trades
and
robotics programs
would be a requirement
for each
student. Theses classes
can be completed
at participating high schools
and/or at Central Lakes
College. The core
classes are a requirement
of the
drafting, machine trades
and robotics programs.
Students
would take the core curriculum and then
take
the additional required
courses for either
a Mechanical
Drafting & Design,
Machine Tool Technology,
or Robotics
Program diploma
or degree.
Transfer, career, and
employment opportunities
are abundant.
