The Virginia Beach
Advanced Technology Center
Presented to the
Tidewater Association of Service Contractors [TASC]
15 September 2004
by J. Lyle Bagley, Dean
Engineering and Industrial Technologies, Tidewater Community College
822-7198 [email protected]
What: ATC at Virginia Beach
• An award-winning, high-tech educational facility
• > 137,000 SF of space
• 2800 network connections
• SOTA laboratories & classrooms
• MPS in every classroom and laboratory
• Most advanced computers and software programs in use today
The ATC Continued
• Huge atrium flanked by CADD labs• A Forum for about 40 with
teleconferencing capability • Economic Development shell space • Environmental monitoring system by
internet• Building-wide security system [soon]• Weather station => Electronics Lab via
VI
ATC Technology Theatre• Capacity of 200 • UN style seating for about 70, indiv internet • Voice actuated cameras for teleconferencing• Full Audio-Video• Divisable into three break-out rooms• Warming kitchen• Rent by the hour • Call or email Ray Tranchant at 822-7601 or
[email protected] for tour and prices OR J. Lyle Bagley at 822-7198, [email protected]
Who?
• VBCPS Technology Center
• VAB Office of Economic Development and TV Station
• Tidewater Community College Engineering and Industrial Technology & Information Technology and Business Divisions
Where?
• At Princess Anne Commons
• On TCC’s Virginia Beach Campus
• Near to ODU/NSU HEC, Landstown HS & the new LifeNet Facility
Tidewater Community College
Engineering and Industrial Technology Division
&
IT and Business Division
EGR Program• Engineering Disciplines:
– Aerospace– Chemical– Civil– Computer– Electrical– Environmental– Mechanical– Mining– Metallurgical– Nuclear
EGR Program
• Engineering Transfers—all disciplines– ODU Engineering – Virginia Tech– Other
• Scholarships for Computer Engineers Five at $1,000 each for Comp EGR
CIV Program
• Surveying
• GPS
• GIS
• Inspections
• Concrete
• Asphalt
• Soils
CIV Program• ASHE Scholarship
– $1500 awarded annually to an EIT student
• Public Works Academy• Software Integration & GIS
– Primavera P3e/c for Construction– AutoDesk Land, Civil Design, Survey– EPANet advanced analysis of flow networks– ESRI ArcGIS: 2 day GIS course w/ Va Tech– Hampton Roads GIS User Group
• GPS Hardware Integration at the ATC– Partnership with VA Tech; 1 day course
ETR Program - Electronics Engineering Technology - Computer Engineering Technology - Electronic Metrology
ETR Pioneering of LabVIEW, Elvis
• 1 of only 2 colleges teaching the LabVIEW developer courses [NI].
• 1 of the 1st to get ELVIS • NSF grant, LabVIEW integration
ETR Mimio
• We have lead at the college in the use of Mimeos.
ETR Panasonic Training
• on site• 1 year curriculum• > 40 graduates• Dramatic reduction in attrition rate
NCSLI Electronic Metrology& NI Test & Measurement
Scholarships
IND Program
• Manufacturing Engineering Technology
• Mechanical Metrology
• Industrial Management and Supervision
• Quality Assurance
• Occupational Safety
IND Program• QA & Safety curricula at SIMA, Naval Base • IND courses @ Little Creek, Norfolk, Oceana• STIHL Apprenticeship programs course needs• FORD college programs for assembly line
workers.• 11 online IND program courses in support of
deployed military personnel • Offered co-enrollment course with the VBCPS • NCSLI Mechanical Metrology Scholarship• NI Mechanical Metrology Scholarship
CADD Program
• Architecture ARC
• Drafting DRF
• Mechanical MEC
CADD Program
• Articulation to HU in Architecture• NSF Grant Collaboration on Curriculum - Articulation• Presentations [e.g., at Norfolk VoTech Center ]• Regional Inventor Workshop at the ATC
– High school educators throughout greater HR• Special recognition for Ralph Denton
– Hunter Brooks completed his AAS Degree in December
• Professional & Student Intern Program in CADD
Other Initiatives by the Division
• Technical Studies AAS in Manufacturing [MET]– Stihl– Visteon– Mitsubishi Chemical– Bauer Compressors– INIT– Sumitomo
• MET Program Interview Day– Linked students with employers– program expansion in the following year
• Internships for Technology Students
Division Initiatives Cont’d . . .• Tours provided to potential partners in BIG
– Governor Warner– Stihl– MiniGears– Volvo Penta– Ford Motor Company– NASA – Sumitomo– Center for Innovative Technology in VA– Visteon– Bauer Compressors . . .
Division Initiatives Cont’d . . .
• Tours cont’d– Science Museum of Virginia– Other Community Colleges, VCCS Chancellor– Virginia Bio Tech– VCU– ODU’s E&T Advisory Board, CWI Committee– DCS Corporation– HRSD, Norfolk Pub Wks, and the PWA– NORSHIPCO– The Division’s Technology Advisory Boards
NSF Grant
• $699,000 Total Curriculum Development/Equip
• EIT Division Portion– 33 projects– 15 of which are collaborative with VBCPS
NASA/TCC Project 2003-2005: Remedy for the Graying of America
• Four Curricula Emerge as Technical Studies:– MET [existing]
– Mechanical Engineering Technologist
– Materials Science Technologist– General Engineering Technologist
• Next phase: establish pipeline
NCATC Summer Workshop 2005
• National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers
• 1-3 June 2005
• Technical Papers
• Theme: Progress through Partnerships
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