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Greenville City Schools
GHS adds
Advanced Manufacturing to their Career Technical Education Center
By Stan Hughes
Career Technology Director
The Advanced Manufacturing Lab at Greenville Senior High School is the
newest addition to the Greenville Career Technical Educational
Center. The lab boasts highly technical training equipment
including an AC/DC Electrical Systems Trainer, a Rotating Machines
Trainer, a Motor Control Systems Trainer, a Motoman Robotic STEM Cart,
a FANUC LRMate Robotic CERT Cart and conveyor, a FANUC CNC machine,
Allen Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers, and Parker Hydraulics
Trainers. These trainers and machines expand our highly
successful engineering program to include curriculum based on
engineering design, AC/DC electrical systems, machine tools and
robotics.
The expansion of the engineering curriculum greatly benefits our
students, staff, school and community. Mr. Christopher
Sykes and Mr. Adam Eberwein, the engineering instructors will train
through industry partners to become certified instructors for the
Advanced Manufacturing Lab equipment. Mr. Sykes and Mr.
Eberwein’s instructor certificates allow them to prepare and train our
students to use the equipment in the lab and equipment in current
manufacturing facilities around the world. Students will be able
to earn certificates and industry recognized credentials through the
engineering program. This will allow students further
opportunities in their post-secondary careers. Students may use
these credentials to earn entry level manufacturing positions.
Students could also continue a manufacturing career pathway through
additional adult education training at Greenville High School or other
institutes offering adult education. Many students will use the
engineering program to continue an engineering career pathway by
enrolling in a college engineering program.
The Advanced Manufacturing Lab has opened the development of
partnerships between Greenville City Schools and local businesses and
institutes of higher learning. Currently Greenville City Schools
is working with local community colleges in providing Adult Educational
Training that expands the entry level manufacturing certifications and
industry recognized credentials provided in high school curriculum by
providing opportunities to obtain upper level manufacturing skills
using the equipment in the lab. This extended training will
produce a skilled adult workforce for our local manufacturing
businesses. These training sessions could be customized to meet
the needs of individual businesses or specific post-secondary
curriculum.
The opening of the Advanced Manufacturing Lab is a culmination of
dedicated work by Greenville City School’s staff members and local
community partnerships such as Community Improvement Corporation of
Darke County in conjunction with a legislative grant that helped fund
the purchase of the manufacturing equipment. The engineering
program coupled with the Advanced Manufacturing Lab, specialized
equipment and highly trained instructors will provide long lasting
positive effects for our students, school, and
community.
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