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(Above)NACC Instructor Will Roberts works with student,
Jason Black of Fort Payne.
(Below) NACC student James Burse of Fort Payne
performing overhead welding.
(Below)Scott Tuten of Dutton
demonstrates grinding in one of his IST classes.
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The latest addition to the
Northeast Alabama Community College campus will be
unveiled Friday, February 12, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. when
the Industrial Systems Technology (IST) Center is
dedicated. Officials note that the state-of-the-art IST
Center permits the college to provide some new and
expanded job and workforce training for the area.
Programs and training in Industrial Maintenance, Welding
Technology, and Machining Technology are being offered
through the IST Center.
“We consider these to be very
important programs in providing educational
opportunities and workforce training for people in our
area,” stated NACC President Dr. David Campbell. “Not
only that, but a highly-trained workforce which these
programs provide, can really be an asset in attracting
economic and industrial development to an area.”
The Center, located on the west side of the NACC campus
along Highway 35, contains some one million dollars in
training equipment. The equipment for the facility was
provided through grants from the Governor’s Office of
Workforce Development, U. S. Congressman Robert
Aderholt, the Alabama Technology Network, and Northeast.
Local businessman Don Stout of Fort Payne also donated
robotic machining equipment to the facility.
“Training programs of this nature are very expensive to
initiate,” Campbell stated. “We are grateful to have
gotten such great financial assistance for this project
through various state and federal agencies and from Mr.
Stout’s contribution. We also were able to actually buy
and renovate this facility through a state bond issue
that was granted to us several years back.”
Prior to the Dedication Ceremony, tours will be
conducted of the IST facility beginning at 9:00 a.m.
Personnel will demonstrate the use and operation of the
training equipment from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Parking
is limited at the IST Center, but transportation to and
from the facility will be offered by Northeast beginning
at 9:00 a.m. from the south (front) side of the Tom
Bevill Lyceum, where parking will be available.
Featured speakers at the Dedication Ceremony are Dr.
Freida Hill, Chancellor of the Alabama Community College
System, Dr. Matthew Hughes, Director of the Governor’s
Office of Workforce Development, and Alabama State
Senator Lowell Barron. The public is invited to and
welcome at this event.
For additional information about the dedication events,
contact Susan Barron at
barrons@nacc.edu,
or phone the college, extension 248. For information about the new
training programs, contact Pat Bridgeman at
bridgemanp@nacc.edu
or phone ext. 254.
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(Left) Jeremy Yancey of Stevenson and
Carlton Wells of Fort Payne perform Overhead welding. |
