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Mechatronic Industrial Technology Steven Frist & Steven Luboniecki

Mechatronic Industrial Technology Steven Frist & Steven Luboniecki Rutherford County Schools. Let’s address the elephant first.

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Mechatronic Industrial Technology Steven Frist & Steven Luboniecki

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  1. Mechatronic Industrial Technology Steven Frist & Steven Luboniecki Rutherford County Schools

  2. Let’s address the elephant first. My son, daughter or students must go to college. While they are there, they can study English Literature or Baroque Music. Maybe they can get a degree in Entomology. If they accomplish that, they are bound to be well-rounded and successfuladults.

  3. I will kick the elephant out of the room. Within 10 years of successfully completing a 15 month post-secondary program of STUDY in mechatronics, our students should.. 1. Make as much money as the average college professor (with a Ph.D.). 2. Make more money than a TN high school teacher with a master’s degree and 30 years of service. (ouch) 3. Accrue virtually zero educational debt, and have a minimum of a 3 year head start on life. 4. Avoid the experience of being unemployed in their chosen field after paying $100,000 to earn a degree in which there are no jobs. 5. Love their jobs. http://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/postsecondary-teachers.htm

  4. What is Mechatronic Industrial Technology? • Mechatronic Industrial Technology (MIT) is a skilled trade program that teaches a huge variety of skills to those tasked with the responsibility of keeping automated manufacturing processes operating at optimal efficiency. They are not grease monkeys or assembly line workers.

  5. At a minimum, Mechatronic Technicians must master the following skills • A huge number of safety protocols • Industrial scale electricity • Electronics • Welding (MIG, TIG, Arc and resistance) • Machining operations (including CAD/CAM) • Hydraulics • Pneumatics • Mechanical drive lines and transmissions • Robotics • Programmable Logic Control • Etc. Etc. Etc

  6. This is an isolated incident, like having a shortage of rodeo clowns. Hardly, the Tennessee Technology Center will recruit 300-500 students locally in the next 3-5 years. Motlow Community College and MTSU are also preparing programs in industrial technology. There will be a dog fight over qualified students. Nissan alone hopes to hire 200 mechatronic technicians in the next 3 years. Virtually every industry needs skilled technicians right now. They won’t find them if we don’t get to work. Several similar programs exist around the U.S. Their students are usually hired before they complete their training program. Most graduate without debt as their tuition is cover by extra-mural funding. Many have multiple job offers and have opportunities in every region of the country.

  7. Sound too good to be true? • Yes, it sounded that way to us too.

  8. Opportunities have always existed, but • Public schools adhere tenaciously to published curriculum. They teach to the test and not to the career possibilities. For the last 2-3 decades success was equated to a 4 year degree, not lucrative and economically important careers. • Industries have traditionally trained their own employees, at great cost. • Governments do not like to invest large sums of money in ever-changing technology or special programs that don’t result in votes.

  9. June 10, 2013, a paradigm shift • “Tennessee Technology Center Director Lynn Kreider said this morning, the state is in the process of purchasing 22 acres of a former retail site off Nissan Drive for a 154,000-square-foot educational facility to be built by the Board of Regents.” • “Gov. Bill Haslam put $35.4 million in the fiscal 2014 budget for a Nissan Education and Training Facility that would house an extension of the Technology Center in Murfreesboro and replace Nissan’s 30-year-old training center to offer auto manufacturing education for a 10-county area.” http://www.tennessean.com/article/D4/20130529/MICRO0501/305290023/Nissan-Training-Center-built-across-from-Smyrna-plant

  10. How did THAT happen? Frankly, this is one of those very rare occasions when schools, government and industries worked together to benefit everyone. It should always be the case.

  11. The facts that prompted the shift…. • Rutherford County is one of the fastest growing counties in the United States. • 22% of our work force is based in manufacturing. • Skilled technical workers are retiring and there are very few skilled people to take their place. The rest are studying Baroque Music. • Rutherford Co. expects a 23% shortage in skilled technical workers by 2019. Nationally, the deficit in skilled workers will be nearly 600,000. Source: Sandy Ponder, Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce

  12. One more little fact. • When the assembly line at Nissan is stopped for a repair it costs the company $6,000 profit per minute Imagine how much the company likes having the assembly line down for 4 hours because they only have 2 skilled technicians available to do the repair.

  13. Who can we blame for this appalling display of common sense? • Rutherford County Schools and Tennessee Technology Center. • Kay Nixon, Don Odoms, Richard Zago, Lynn Kreider, Harold Hyatt and scores of others • Our “Manufacturing Council” • Nissan, Bridgestone, Parthenon Metal, L & W Engineering, Quality Industries, The Davis Group and many others • Our legislators • Sen. Tracey, Sen. Ketron, Rep. Carr, Gov. Haslam

  14. If this “works” (pun intended) • Our students will have financially and personally rewarding careers. • Our local industries will thrive. • Our economy will grow. • “Qualified” unemployment will drop. • New businesses will be attracted to the area. Win, win, win, win…….

  15. Is it really that easy? • No, as public school teachers we have a big mountain to climb. We have to learn and teach an incredible spectrum of technical skills. It also requires new equipment, classroom space and a change in the current curriculum pathways. • Nissan indicated it took about 10 years to master some of the more complex trade skills. As teachers we aren’t even in the trade, otherwise we would drive nicer cars. We will be on the “Cliff’s Notes” program to get started.

  16. What and how do we teach in Mechatronic Industrial Technology? • I will turn you over to Steven Luboniecki Mr. Luboniecki has over 15 years experience as a Training Manager at General Motors. He has directed over 500,000 labor hours of training activities. He has held other positions as well including Safety Coordinator, Ergonomics Coordinater, Project Manager, and Facilities Engineer. He is the recipient of many corporate awards and recognitions. He has presented to the local chapter of the Project Management Institute, has been published by the local chapter of the American Society for Training and Development and is a Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt in quality management.

  17. The big picture for our students 1. They take and pass Principles of Technology I during their sophomore or junior year. 2. The following year, they concurrently enroll in Principles of Technology II AND Mechatronic Industrial Technology I. They will be dual enrolled at TTC and RCS and receive credit at TTC. Not all students will accomplish this.

  18. Cont… 3. As HS graduates they move to TTC as a full time student there. Or as HS seniors, they take a second year of MIT and commute to TTC. Again, it will be a dual enrollment class. 4. They enroll in a “rolling” 15 month training program at TTC. (credits earned in MIT will be applied). Some will work part-time in an externship. 5. They are hired as “junior” level technicians, where they will spend 3-5 years honing their skills. Don’t be fooled by the “junior” thing. They start at $25-$30/hr depending upon the employer. After 3-5 years they are promoted to “senior level”.

  19. Conclusion. • Schools, industry and government worked together to build an opportunity for our students, and fill a need in our economy. • As teachers we have many new skills to acquire and teach. This won’t be an easy task for us or our students. • Students will work hard to master complex skills, but the reward is great. Only those who rise to the occasion will be successful.

  20. The end… I was at Nissan attending a training program and had a chance to speak to number of experienced maintenance technicians. One told me he had about 13 years of experience and he was only 32. He voluntarily works some overtime, available because of the shortage of skilled technicians. It is possible he could earn over $120,000 this year. The best part is that he, like all the others I interviewed, LOVED his job.

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