Case Studies
Several of our technology labs can be more closely examined through case study. Click on the school links below to view the details. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, it can be downloaded for free at Adobe.com.
Industrial Mechanical
Amatrol Industrial Mechanical
Reading Area Community College
Reading Area Community College and its state-of-the-art Schmidt Training and Technology Center is creating custom training in computer hardware, and software for DirectLink Technologies, an information technology service provider that is experiencing rapid growth. RACC worked with First Energy Corp. to design a two-year associate’s degree in electric utility technology.
“Our programs are specifically designed to come up with a solution to a problem in a short time,” says John DeVere, RACC’s dean of Workforce and Economic Development/Community Education.
The Industrial Maintenance Training Center of Pennsylvania is responsible for the training goals of Reading Community College and the Lancaster WIB programs. For additional information on Industrial Maintenance Training Center of Pennsylvania click here.
Virtual CNC Training
immersive.biz
Northwestern Michigan College
When NMC purchased a mill and lathe from Haas Automation, it licensed VTE-CNC, which consists of software with tutorials and quizzes; and the virtual CNC panels and 3D machining centers that aide in teaching machine tool operation. Now, students can access class materials 24/7 on line at home or in NMC’s computer lab. They learn at their own pace—and can back up to repeat material as much as needed.
Health Care
HealthCenter21
Lancaster County Career and Technology Center
Instructors have been impressed with the way that HealthCenter21 addresses multiple intelligences. “Using the HealthCenter21 program met the various needs of our students, such as the visual and auditory learners using the computer aspect and the tactile learners performing hands-on activities in the lab setting,” says Nina Eckert.
Electromechanical
Mechatronics
Lehigh Career & Technical Institute
When the Administration at Lehigh Career and Technical Institute started the planning on an Electro-Mechanical/Automated Systems Lab, they knew what type of equipment the program had to have—Industrial Grade. The learning environment and curriculum has to emulate what the students will find and prepare them to enter with workplace.
“The courseware and software compliments the hands-on work which is designed to Industrial Standards”, said John Chowansky, the teacher at LCTI.
Technology Education
TechCenter21
Blue Mountain Middle School
“Several teachers and parents have visited the new lab, and they just can’t believe what we’re doing in here now!” said Susan E. Schneider-Morgan, Blue Mountain School District’s Director of Educational Technology. Susan and Jared Gerace, the Technology Education teacher at the school, spent months researching equipment, curriculum and classroom furniture that would facilitate the changes they had planned for the program.
Pre-Engineering
Engineering
Lower Merion School District
Most of us tend to think of technology as computers, but Mark Piotrowski, Technology Education Instructor, and Steve Barbato, Supervisor of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment for Science and Technology Education, recently told the Lower Merion School Board. Technology is much broader in scope. A starting definition of Technology Education is to say that it is human innovation in action, or the study of the human world. This encompasses designing, planning, engineering and manufacturing in fields such as medicine, agriculture, construction, transportation, power, information and communications.
Integrated Technology
ITC
William Tennent High School
Technology-education teacher Jeff Czekaj, who said that the change was two years in the making, was aware of only a few other similar high school programs in the area.
“It needed to be done,” Czekaj said. “The program was a traditional program…. The school was looking to go into the 21st century.”
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