Mechatronics & Advanced Manufacturing Apprenticeship Program
The long-term success of Greater New Orleans is predicated on our ability to expand and sustain a skilled workforce available to our region’s growing industry sectors. Using a demand-driven workforce development approach, GNO, Inc. works closely with employers and higher education institutions to promote collaboration that supports the development of the regional talent pipeline.
Greater New Orleans Mechatronics & Advanced Manufacturing Apprenticeship Program
In an unprecedented partnership, three companies and three two-year colleges – Laitram, McCormick, Elmer Chocolate, Delgado Community College, Northshore Technical Community College and Nunez Community College – came together to develop the Mechatronics & Advanced Manufacturing Apprenticeship Program as a way to address the shortage of talent in the advanced manufacturing industry.
The program, which is no longer active, taught the fundamentals of mechatronics, a field that incorporates mechanics, electronics, and computer science with manufacturing to increase efficiency.
Program Summary
The Mechatronics & Advanced Manufacturing Apprenticeship Program’s curriculum was designed to enhance and prepare apprentices to be fully qualified in multiple aspects of advanced manufacturing technology. The two-year commitment provided both technical classroom instruction and on-the-job training using an earn-while-you-learn model with training costs covered by the employer.
Once hired by an employer, apprentices earned a paycheck while learning on-the-job. Apprentices alternated between eight weeks of classroom learning and eight weeks at their chosen company for the duration of the program. Participants in the program gained experience in a wide range of core competencies including motor controls, basic machining (mill, lathe, drilling, tapping, etc.), blueprint reading, functions of electrical and electronic systems, plus much more
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GNO Mechatronics Apprenticeship Program Cohort 1 Signing Ceremony
GNO Mechatronics Apprenticeship Program Cohort 1 Presentations at Delgado Community College
GNO Mechatronics Apprenticeship Program Cohort 1 Presentations at Northshore Technical Community College
GNO Mechatronics Apprenticeship Program Cohort 2 Signing Ceremony
Mechatronics Mobile Lab
Mechatronics Mobile Lab
If you’re interested in using the Mechatronics Mobile Lab, please contact:
Charles Crabtree
Northshore Technical Community College
charlescrabtree@northshorecollege.edu
985-545-1231