Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: CLTCC) joined hands in a work/study program in collaboration with local and regional manufacturers to offer the Advanced Manufacturing Technician (AMT) program.AMT program provides the opportunity for a learn/earn environment to those students who prefer to go to work as technicians without having to go through four years of a conventional degree program.This program modeled after Toyota Maintenance System (TMS), which is a modified version of Toyota Production System, is not a typical college degree program.The purpose of this program is to produce a well-versed technician with knowledge and skill in core manufacturing practices (safety, 5S, lean manufacturing, problemsolving and machine reliability) as well as six essential professional behaviors (attendance, initiative, diligence, interpersonal relations, communication, and teamwork).In this paper, authors who have been with the program since its inception in Louisiana, have amassed difficulties encountered and lessons learned from the perspective of its three major constituents: students, industrial partners, and academic institutions.This paper would provide the opportunity to understand how a collaborative effort among academic institutions and industries could answer the question, "how to meet the ever-increasing demand of qualified technicians created by emerging technologies and the silver tsunami?"The primary objective of this paper is to inform educators and industrial partners who are planning to develop similar programs of best practices in order to ensure a smooth implementation process.
Authors: Nabin Sapkota, Laurie Morrow
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3089651189