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Employers nationwide have found a valuable resource for skilled workers with Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) Computer Integrated Machining Technology (CIMT) program.
"There is no question regarding the skill level of students in the CIMT program,” says Bill Strachan of IBM. “My colleagues and I feel that there is no program in the U.S. that provides the training that this NTID program does."
CIMT students get hands-on instruction in three different laboratories filled with state-of-the-art industrial equipment. Students learn to set up lathes, use milling machines, set up and operate CNC machines, create precision parts, and more under the guidance of skilled and experienced faculty and staff. Students also learn to use precision machines commonly used in industrial tool rooms. The grinding, metrology and computer numerical control labs all give them hands-on experience making precision parts and gaining troubleshooting skills.
The Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center located near Chicago recently turned to RIT’s CIMT program for skilled workers because of the void caused by previous downsizing and workers’ retirement.
Representatives traveled to RIT to visit the program and talk with faculty and students about their machinist apprentice program. RIT is home to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), where the CIMT program resides. More than 1,100 students with hearing loss from around the world study, live, and socialize with 14,400 hearing students on RIT’s Rochester, N.Y., campus.
As reported in a recent issue of The ROCK, a monthly publication serving Arsenal Island, they “ … wanted to recruit RIT because of their computer integrated machining technology program and partnership with Naval Aviation Depot in Cherry Point, N.C. which has successfully employed several deaf machinists.”
“Each deaf and hard of hearing individual is different and unique. You just have to give them a chance to prove that they can do the work,” said Jan Fletcher, disability program manager in the Garrison Equal Employment Opportunity.
Graduates of the CIMT program are well prepared for jobs such as computer numerical control operator or CNC programmer trainee, or they may specialize as tool and die apprentices, instrument makers, mold makers, pattern makers, model makers, or machinists,” said Ronald Till, chairperson, NTID’s Industrial and Science Technologies Department. “Other employers who have hired graduates include Gleason Works, MWI, Trident Precision Machining, Metalade, Bausch & Lomb, ET Precision Optics, U.S. Army Depot, Boeing Aircraft, Inc., and Eastman Kodak Company,” he says.
NTID students recently had an opportunity to show off their technical and troubleshooting skills, as well as their innovation when they worked together to build two alternative fuel vehicles, which won first and second place in the student division, and also won second and third overall in the international Tour de Sol electric bicycle competition, held last Spring in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Teams competed for $10,000 in prize money in various technology categories and earned points for practicality, acceleration, handling and range in addition to good fuel efficiency and low climate-change emissions. RIT/NTID students entered two bikes in the “Around Town Vehicle Competition,” designed to incorporate innovations that reduce carbon emissions while creating a quality, affordable vehicle.
One bike was built from scratch without pedal assistance after the nine students involved designed, machined, fabricated, welded and assembled it, using parts purchased at local shops and on e-bay. It took first place against 10 other entries.
“The goal was to balance the energy that's stored in the battery system with how quickly you extract that energy using a motor and drivetrain,” said Scott Bellinger, NTID assistant professor of automation technology. “The vehicle needs to be as efficient as possible so as to not waste energy through heat or frictional losses either in the drivetrain or even just air friction.”
The other vehicle was a modified version of an existing bike, powered by a lithium battery with pedal assistance. Both bikes use a brushless, gearless direct drive hub motor for propulsion. Energy is stored in 50 amp-hour lithium-ion batteries. A custom controller converts the D.C. power into three phase alternating current for the motor, Bellinger said, and a twist grip throttle, like a motorcycle uses, controls the current to the motor and varies the speed.
This is the first team in the Tour’s 18-year history comprising deaf people.
In addition, NTID’s Center on Employment offers a half day training program, called Working Together, where employers and workers learn tips to integrate a deaf or hard-of-hearing worker into the workplace and to ease the transition.
A representative from the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs office, said, “After interviewing on campus, I found several NTID students I wanted to hire. Their technical qualifications easily place them in the top tier of the 1,800 students we recruit each year.”
For more information, contact NTID’s Center on Employment at (585) 475-6219, or visit their website at RIT - NTID - Center On Employment.
NTID hosts an annual job fair where employers and students can connect and learn more about each other. Interpreters are available. Employers can find registration information and this year’s Oct. 24, 2006 Job Fair’s agenda at RIT - NTID - Center on Employment - Job Fair.
Visit RIT - NTID - Center on Employment - News/Events - Event Detail to see the complete Job Fair schedule.
Employers nationwide have found a valuable resource for skilled workers with Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) Computer Integrated Machining Technology (CIMT) program.
"There is no question regarding the skill level of students in the CIMT program,” says Bill Strachan of IBM. “My colleagues and I feel that there is no program in the U.S. that provides the training that this NTID program does."
CIMT students get hands-on instruction in three different laboratories filled with state-of-the-art industrial equipment. Students learn to set up lathes, use milling machines, set up and operate CNC machines, create precision parts, and more under the guidance of skilled and experienced faculty and staff. Students also learn to use precision machines commonly used in industrial tool rooms. The grinding, metrology and computer numerical control labs all give them hands-on experience making precision parts and gaining troubleshooting skills.
The Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center located near Chicago recently turned to RIT’s CIMT program for skilled workers because of the void caused by previous downsizing and workers’ retirement.
Representatives traveled to RIT to visit the program and talk with faculty and students about their machinist apprentice program. RIT is home to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), where the CIMT program resides. More than 1,100 students with hearing loss from around the world study, live, and socialize with 14,400 hearing students on RIT’s Rochester, N.Y., campus.
As reported in a recent issue of The ROCK, a monthly publication serving Arsenal Island, they “ … wanted to recruit RIT because of their computer integrated machining technology program and partnership with Naval Aviation Depot in Cherry Point, N.C. which has successfully employed several deaf machinists.”
“Each deaf and hard of hearing individual is different and unique. You just have to give them a chance to prove that they can do the work,” said Jan Fletcher, disability program manager in the Garrison Equal Employment Opportunity.
Graduates of the CIMT program are well prepared for jobs such as computer numerical control operator or CNC programmer trainee, or they may specialize as tool and die apprentices, instrument makers, mold makers, pattern makers, model makers, or machinists,” said Ronald Till, chairperson, NTID’s Industrial and Science Technologies Department. “Other employers who have hired graduates include Gleason Works, MWI, Trident Precision Machining, Metalade, Bausch & Lomb, ET Precision Optics, U.S. Army Depot, Boeing Aircraft, Inc., and Eastman Kodak Company,” he says.
NTID students recently had an opportunity to show off their technical and troubleshooting skills, as well as their innovation when they worked together to build two alternative fuel vehicles, which won first and second place in the student division, and also won second and third overall in the international Tour de Sol electric bicycle competition, held last Spring in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Teams competed for $10,000 in prize money in various technology categories and earned points for practicality, acceleration, handling and range in addition to good fuel efficiency and low climate-change emissions. RIT/NTID students entered two bikes in the “Around Town Vehicle Competition,” designed to incorporate innovations that reduce carbon emissions while creating a quality, affordable vehicle.
One bike was built from scratch without pedal assistance after the nine students involved designed, machined, fabricated, welded and assembled it, using parts purchased at local shops and on e-bay. It took first place against 10 other entries.
“The goal was to balance the energy that's stored in the battery system with how quickly you extract that energy using a motor and drivetrain,” said Scott Bellinger, NTID assistant professor of automation technology. “The vehicle needs to be as efficient as possible so as to not waste energy through heat or frictional losses either in the drivetrain or even just air friction.”
The other vehicle was a modified version of an existing bike, powered by a lithium battery with pedal assistance. Both bikes use a brushless, gearless direct drive hub motor for propulsion. Energy is stored in 50 amp-hour lithium-ion batteries. A custom controller converts the D.C. power into three phase alternating current for the motor, Bellinger said, and a twist grip throttle, like a motorcycle uses, controls the current to the motor and varies the speed.
This is the first team in the Tour’s 18-year history comprising deaf people.
In addition, NTID’s Center on Employment offers a half day training program, called Working Together, where employers and workers learn tips to integrate a deaf or hard-of-hearing worker into the workplace and to ease the transition.
A representative from the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs office, said, “After interviewing on campus, I found several NTID students I wanted to hire. Their technical qualifications easily place them in the top tier of the 1,800 students we recruit each year.”
For more information, contact NTID’s Center on Employment at (585) 475-6219, or visit their website at RIT - NTID - Center On Employment.
NTID hosts an annual job fair where employers and students can connect and learn more about each other. Interpreters are available. Employers can find registration information and this year’s Oct. 24, 2006 Job Fair’s agenda at RIT - NTID - Center on Employment - Job Fair.
Visit RIT - NTID - Center on Employment - News/Events - Event Detail to see the complete Job Fair schedule.