Roane State Community College will host information meetings about its new mechatronics certificate program on Thursday in the Club Room at the Clinton Community Center.
The information sessions will be held at 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 6 p.m. Interested students only need to attend one of the sessions.
The meetings had been planned for the Clinton Higher Education and Workforce Training Facility, but they had to be moved because of ongoing construction at the facility.
The mechatronics program will train students to become technicians who operate, maintain, and repair high-tech automated manufacturing systems.
Anyone interested in the one-year mechatronics program is invited to attend the information meetings. For more information, call (865) 481-5424 or email [email protected].
The program begins Tuesday, Jan. 22, at the Clinton Higher Education and Workforce Training Facility, 214 Nave St. (the old armory).
The Clinton Community Center is at 101 Hicks St.
The mechatronics program was developed with funding from a $19.7 million grant awarded to the National STEM Consortium and 10 community colleges in nine states under the U.S. Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Act grant program. The goal of the grant was to develop certificate-level programs in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, that could be implemented nationwide to meet critical labor market needs. Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland leads the National STEM Consortium.
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