PCB Chat 89: College Training Programs for Electronics
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English - December 10, 2021 21:25 - 46 minutes - 27.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTechnology News Tech News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Lorain County Community College, located in northeast Ohio, about 30 miles west of Cleveland, became in 2018 the first community college to offer an applied bachelor’s in microelectronic manufacturing. And a year ago, it formed the Manufacturing Electronics & Rework Institute for Training, or MERIT, which the hands-on training lab. Last spring, the program graduated its first students.
Johnny Vanderford, the director of MERIT and an assistant professor of MEMS at LCCC, and Courtney Tenhover, program developer, Engineering, Business, and Information Technologies, join Mike Buetow to discuss how industry companies shape the program curriculum and its potential for adoption by other colleges.