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 jbagley@tcc.edu

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

Rtranchant@tcc.edu for tour and prices OR J. Lyle Bagley at 822-7198, jbagley@tcc.edu

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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