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In the midst of an economic crisis effecting education budgets nationwide, one high school in suburban Saint Louis, Missouri continues to increase enrollment while remaining wholly dedicated to young people's career interests. Read more > |
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John Hersey High School's engineering courses provide students with a solid foundation for more advanced learning experiences involving manufacturing products that will be tested in competition with other students. In one class students spend a year designing and manufacturing super-mileage gasoline-powered cars. JHHS also has an after-school robotics program in which students each design and build battle robots. Read more > |
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Clearwater, Kansas, located on the Old Chisholm trail 16 miles southwest of Witchta, is a community of 2,300 people. They don't have big city educational resources in Clearwater, but they do have Ron Cox, a high school teacher with big ideas for exposing students to the latest woodworking and machining technology. With some donated equipment, assistance from a local manufacturer, and Mastercam Mill and Router software, that is exactly what he is doing. Read more > |
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An essential requirement for teaching advanced 5-axis programming is a rock-solid postprocessor that will interface with the controller flawlessly and seamlessly. Read more > |
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Breathitt County High School in rural Jackson County, Kentucky, wanted to transform its conventional shop program into a course that would expose students to the latest concepts in computer-aided manufacturing. But how? Read more > |
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The Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) at the Southeastern Institute of Manufacturing and Technology (SiMT), Florence, SC, straddles two different worlds.
It is an educational facility. It is a manufacturing plant. It also has conference, meeting and convention center facilities to promote the exchange of ideas among academics, industrial suppliers and the manufacturing community. Read more > |
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Gateway Community College needed to create an AAS degree program that delivers students better prepared to take on the challenges of advanced CNC manufacturing. Read more > |
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Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College needed to provide students with a sound, real world grounding in computer-aided manufacturing practice, while satisfying the diverse but exacting training requirements of local industries. Read more > |
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At Robert Morris University’s School of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science, in Pittsburgh, PA, Mastercam CAD/CAM software is being used as a tool to bridge the theoretical aspects of engineering education with practical real-world applications. Read more > |
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Taking a student-designed vehicle and technology education as far as it will go. Read more > |
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The three person Automated Manufacturing Technology team representing the Orleans\Niagara BOCES (Board of Cooperative Education Services) District in New York had won the regional Skills USA competition. Read more > |
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The Advanced Manufacturing Program at Vincennes was instituted in 2005 after the University conducted a survey of Indiana manufacturers who unanimously agreed that there was a crying need for technical school graduates with Advanced CAD/CAM and CNC skills. Read more > |
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Science and technology courses at Glenbrook North High School (in Northbrook, IL) in the suburbs of Chicago have become extremely popular over the past decade. Read more > |
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A lack of interest in their Machining Technology program prompted Cape Fear Community College instructors to find a way for their program to survive. Read more > |
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The Ozarks Technical Community College (OTC) team’s dash into the running at NASA’s Great Moon Buggy Competition seems similar, in both their underdog position and the near-fanatical enthusiasm that overcame it. Read more > |
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Two instructors got a whole new approach to their CNC and CAD/CAM instruction, seats on the Advisory Board of the Mastercam Certification Committee, and better results for their student and local businesses. Read more > |
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