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JTED in West County offers aviation opportunities

By R. Oliphant
Saturday, September 20th, 2014

Yavapai Community College partners with Mountain Institute JTED

In a news release to the Prescott Daily Courier of September 8, it was announced by the Mountain Institute JTED that it had formed a  partnership with Yavapai College that will allow its students to take part in the Aviation Technologies program taught at CTEC for the 2014-15 school year.  

No similar program is available to JTED students in high school on the East side of Yavapai County.

CTEC6Aviation Technologies is a two-year program. Year one is devoted to fixed-winged flight, with students completing simulation labs in take-off, landing, and maneuvering an airplane in real-world situations. This past summer, Yavapai College completed its new helicopter simulator lab, and as a result MIJTED’s year-two aviation students are focusing on helicopters and utilizing the new facility, which features simulators that react as if the students are in flight, including realistic sound, motion and vibration.

AVIATION TECHNOLOGY AT MOUNTAIN INSTITUTEStudents also have the opportunity to take classes in air-traffic control. Though they are in different rooms, students in the air-traffic control lab can send voice commands to students in the fixed-wing or helicopter simulators. This technology enables them to realistically direct aircraft to take-off, land, or go into a holding pattern, and enables the students in the flight simulators to become experienced in processing air-traffic control commands.

To read the complete news release that appeared in the Prescott Daily Courier please click here.

Categories : Career and Technical Education, Vocational Education, Vocational training

Agreement with Mountain Institute Joint Technical Education District great for high school students in Prescott

By R. Oliphant
Saturday, September 13th, 2014

Mountain Institute Joint Technical Education District and
Community College reach career training agreement–no agreement with East County 

The Mountain Institute Joint Technical Education District in Prescott has reached an agreement with the College over training of high school students at the Prescott Airport Career and Technical Education campus. Under the agreement high school students in the district will be able to take a wide variety of career and technical education courses taught by College instructors. The high school students will often be taking courses at the same time as adults.

CTEC6The programs offered in this agreement are not available to any high school students in the East side of the County (Sedona, Camp Verde, Cottonwood). The following is a list of the courses, the credit hours and tuition. Tuition is paid to the College by the Mountain Institute District for each student.  Read More→

Categories : Career and Technical Education, Vocational Education, Vocational training

New programs offered in Prescott; none in Verde

By R. Oliphant
Thursday, August 7th, 2014

Fall 2014 finds six new academic programs offered in Prescott; no new programs announced for the Verde Valley 

Yavapai Community college will offer six new academic programs beginning with the 2014 fall semester: The six programs are: Athletic Coaching, Canine Care and Handling, Electric Utility Technology, Therapy and Service Dog Team Skills, and additional courses in welding programs. New clip

The College also has several updated programs, including the Industrial Machine Mechanic program, at the Career and Technical Education campus in Prescott. Source: Prescott Courier. Source:  Prescott Daily Courier.

Categories : Career and Technical Education, New Courses, Vocational training

Drone program created at CTEC and Chino Valley

By R. Oliphant
Wednesday, August 6th, 2014

Unmanned aircraft company working with CTEC; was 80 acres on Verde campus considered?

Patrick Whitehurst of the Prescott Daily Courier reports that a new program is under development at the Chino Valley campus of Yavapai Community College that involves drones and a partnership with SWIFT Radioplanes.  Swift Radio planes is a local Prescott business that manufactures unmanned aircraft. The unmanned aircraft systems, known as drones, would be used for safety programs, “including fire sciences, emergency management and agricultural studies.”

CTEC and Chino Valley campus dean John Morgan, was quoted as saying that “It’s been kind of a long process because we had to get a COA (certificate of authorization) from the FAA. That process took us a couple of years to do. We’re going to take the bulk of this year to try to develop this program. . . . The largest portion of everything we’re going to be doing is really data
According to the Community College, it “will initially lease a Lynx radio-controlled aircraft manufactured by Swift Radioplanes, LLC to conduct scheduled flights that will collect imagery to be analyzed for training in existing academic programs. The Lynx is a fixed-wing electric motor aircraft with an 8-foot wingspan that can carry a variety of equipment, such as multi-spectral and thermal-imaging cameras.”  The aircraft will be flown only over the Chino Valley campus and will be operated below 400 feet, under line-of-site radio control.

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Categories : Career and Technical Education, Chino Valley campus
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