Moultrie Tech Tifton Campus Launches
RAMP Program
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Moultrie Technical College Tifton Campus Industrial Systems Technology instructor Chris Estes, center, explains the RAMP instructional technology to Tifton’s Heatcraft Worldwide Refrigeration Company representatives Mike McDaniel, left, and Bob Gurz, right. |
A new mechatronics/automation program planned by Moultrie Technical College will produce highly skilled technicians that are needed to operate and repair the state-of-the-art equipment being used by today’s manufacturers. Preparing people for the changing workforce is one way communities can benefit economically, proponents of the program said Tuesday at the Remote Automation Management Project program launch held at MTC.
MTC and its Tifton Campus will use the RAMP program to introduce high school students to industrial automation. The pilot project is the first of its kind in the Southeastern region of the United States. MTC is the only technical college in the state with the technology and only the second technical college in the nation to use it as a teaching module. Tift County High School is one of the first eight locations selected for the pilot program. Seven others in Georgia will be added with MTC’s Industrial Systems Technology Department [and instructor Chris Estes] providing technical training to secondary technology instructors and secondary students to ensure a seamless transition from high school to technical colleges. Students will receive dual enrollment credit, which is high school and college credits earned simultaneously.
Click here to read the article written in its entirety by Tifton Gazette senior reporter Angie Thompson and published on Wednesday, September 17, 2008.
Click here to read an Editorial/Letter to the Editor published on Thursday, September 18, 2008 in The Tifton Gazette.
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