Local educators recently completed a Northeast State-sponsored industrial maintenance workshop designed to keep students and workers in step with the ever-changing demands of technology.
The National Institute for Metalworking Skills provided the training—known as Smart Solutions—that allows manufacturing companies and educational institutions to create agile training programs based on industry standards, training principles, and performance measures.
The training was held in the College’s new $29 million Technical Education Complex.
“Everyone tends to look at change in three-year or five-year increments, but technology changes in months,” said Montez King, NIMS executive director. “Companies need an infrastructure that allows dynamic updates rather than periodic updates. That’s key.”
NIMS Executive Director Montez King explains the agenda for the Industrial Technology Maintenance workshop.
Smart Standards are highly customizable and accepted by industry. They enable proper training for employees in manufacturing where technology is developing and changing. Smart Training Principles establish quality on-the-job training that includes regulated performance validation. Smart Performance Measures properly define and benchmark employee performance.
Local educators from Daniel Boone High School, Johnson County High School, Science Hill High School, and Northeast State completed Smart Solutions-based training in electrical systems and electronic control systems.
The workshop included theoretical and hands-on training using Amatrol electrical simulators. The participants were able to perform small-scale functions and experience realistic manufacturing problems and solutions.
Each participant received a $300 stipend for completing the workshop and a NIMS Industrial Technology Maintenance credential.
A U.S. Department of Education Perkins Innovation and Modernization Grant funded the training. The College’s project augments dual enrollment opportunities in advanced technology programs that culminate in early postsecondary credit and credential completion for students in the College’s service region.
“I think the (NIMS) approach is the way it should be,” said Kenneth Pierson, a Northeast State adjunct professor. “The hands-on approach lets students demonstrate their knowledge and gives employers a way to evaluate it. That sings to me.”
Richard Murray, a construction teacher at Science Hill, said the performance evaluation aspect of NIMS training would be attractive to his students who prefer that type of assessment.
“Anything hands-on—that’s why our students take the classes they do,” said Murray. “We need more performance evaluation in Career and Technical Education. Having a product that allows us to see a student’s knowledge is really going to be beneficial.”
NIMS was founded in 1995 as a non-profit organization with the mission to develop and maintain a globally competitive American workforce. Over the last 25 years, the organization says it has become the industry standard for skills training, validation, and credentialing, now providing over 60 portable credentials in specific technical areas. For more information, visit http://www.nims-skills.org.
NE State adjunct professor Kenneth Pierson looks over NIMS materials.Paul Hazelwood and Montez Williams of NIMS talk with a student.NE State classroom with Amatrol electrical simulators.
Local educators recently completed a Northeast State-sponsored industrial maintenance workshop designed to keep students and workers in step with the ever-changing demands of technology.
The National Institute for Metalworking Skills provided the training—known as Smart Solutions—that allows manufacturing companies and educational institutions to create agile training programs based on industry standards, training principles, and performance measures.
The training was held in the College’s new $29 million Technical Education Complex.
“Everyone tends to look at change in three-year or five-year increments, but technology changes in months,” said Montez King, NIMS executive director. “Companies need an infrastructure that allows dynamic updates rather than periodic updates. That’s key.”
Smart Standards are highly customizable and accepted by industry. They enable proper training for employees in manufacturing where technology is developing and changing. Smart Training Principles establish quality on-the-job training that includes regulated performance validation. Smart Performance Measures properly define and benchmark employee performance.
Local educators from Daniel Boone High School, Johnson County High School, Science Hill High School, and Northeast State completed Smart Solutions-based training in electrical systems and electronic control systems.
The workshop included theoretical and hands-on training using Amatrol electrical simulators. The participants were able to perform small-scale functions and experience realistic manufacturing problems and solutions.
Each participant received a $300 stipend for completing the workshop and a NIMS Industrial Technology Maintenance credential.
A U.S. Department of Education Perkins Innovation and Modernization Grant funded the training. The College’s project augments dual enrollment opportunities in advanced technology programs that culminate in early postsecondary credit and credential completion for students in the College’s service region.
“I think the (NIMS) approach is the way it should be,” said Kenneth Pierson, a Northeast State adjunct professor. “The hands-on approach lets students demonstrate their knowledge and gives employers a way to evaluate it. That sings to me.”
Richard Murray, a construction teacher at Science Hill, said the performance evaluation aspect of NIMS training would be attractive to his students who prefer that type of assessment.
“Anything hands-on—that’s why our students take the classes they do,” said Murray. “We need more performance evaluation in Career and Technical Education. Having a product that allows us to see a student’s knowledge is really going to be beneficial.”
NIMS was founded in 1995 as a non-profit organization with the mission to develop and maintain a globally competitive American workforce. Over the last 25 years, the organization says it has become the industry standard for skills training, validation, and credentialing, now providing over 60 portable credentials in specific technical areas. For more information, visit http://www.nims-skills.org.
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