 The Advanced Manufacturing Career Collaborative (AMC2)
AMC2 was established because of a shared sense of urgency concerning Southwestern PA's ability to provide a technically trained workforce in the numbers needed by the region's manufacturers. AMC2 Goals
The collaborative brings regional organizations that promote manufacturing career awareness together into one forum, where they can share resources and create a unified approach to promoting manufacturing career awareness in southwestern Pennsylvania. The collaborative’s objectives are:
· Show that there are clear manufacturing pathways that can lead to rewarding careers
· Develop a 2+2 +2 seamless, sequential educational pathway
· Develop written and electronic marketing materials and resources that promote manufacturing career awareness.
For more information about the collaborative and its participants see: http://www.amcsquared.com/aboutus.asp. Articulations under Development AMC2 is working to develop manufacturing-related educational pathways for three of its partner CTCs, which are located in Washington and Greene counties and do not have access to local community colleges. Model articulation: Articulation for Fayette AVTS’s Machining Technology Program to California University of PA’s flex AS degree in Industrial Technology, which provides for 26 advanced credits. Students can continue their studies to complete a BS degree in Industrial Technology from CAL U. The model articulation was approved during the last grant period. The flex degree requires significant industry input as well as national credentials to verify skill mastery. Under current funding, Western Area, Mon Valley, and Greene County CTCs have developed similar articulations for their manufacturing-related programs. The course work has been reviewed by the CTC’s craft committees, national credentials have been selected as demonstration of skill mastery, and the draft articulations have been submitted to CAL U for final review. We are also pursuing an articulation for New Century Careers’ MANUFACTURING 2000 machining program to an AS degree at the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC). The curriculum is being reviewed and accepted by CCAC. The articulation agreement will provide for a maximum of 15 credits toward the AS degree. The articulation will serve as a model for articulations for the machining programs at the target CTCs to CCAC. Both CAL U and CCAC are members of PRIME (Partnership in Regional Innovation in Manufacturing Education). Once the articulations with CCAC and CAL U are approved we will work to get similar articulations with the other PRIME post-secondary schools.
Enrollment
| Fall 2004
| Fall 2005
| Target (4) CTC mfg. enrollment TOTALS
| 231
| 236
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| CAL U AS in Industrial Tech.
| 21
| 45
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| CAL U BS in Industrial Tech.
| 66
| 41
| | | | CAL U AS & BS Total:
| 87
| 86
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| Total Pipeline
| 318
| 322
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>>View list of AMC2 Members. >>View and print brochure. |
