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LATEST NEWS RELEASES
9-02-09
CREATE is going GREEN and co-hosting three solar PhotoVoltaic (PV) workshops with IREC on Sept. 4, Nov. 11, and Dec. 4, 2009. (Click here)
4-1-09
CREATE Teaching Dynamics: Getting Results, workshop on July 8-10 at Casa de Maria, Montecito, CA. (Click here)
3-1-09
National Visiting Committee (NVC) Meeting, April 8-9, 2009 at Santa Barbara City College. Agenda
NVC, Astronomical Field Tour and Wind Farm Tour, April 9-10 Agenda.
1-14-09
CREATE Planning Retreat (Click here)
CREATE is going GREEN (Click here)
11-1-08
Allan Hancock College has a new Mechatronics Website. (Click here)
5-10-08
New CREATE website features! (Click here)
3-17-08
Facilitator Development Workshops I is being offered June 8 - 13, 2008.
3-17-08
The CREATE fourms are now operational. (Click here)
10-24-07
"Keeping Faculty and Curriculum Current", Presented by Robert Alldredge at the 2007 ATE National Principal Investigators Conference: " Keeping Technical Programs Viable and Sustainable". Download Mr. Alldredge's zipped (.zip) PowerPoint Presentation, 5.6 MB: Keeping Faculty and Curriculum Current
5-11-07
Annual Industry Advisory Committee and Student Awards Luncheon for the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Regional Center, CREATE. (more)
9-14-06
Current news from the Engineering Technology Dept. at Oxnard College:
New CompTIA Security + Course offered, Fall 2006 (Course has full enrollment!)
New articulation agreeement with the Oxnard High School Union District for the first half of CCNA Prep. If a student completes the First Half of CCNA Prep. at any high school in the Oxnard District and then completes the Second Half of the CCNA Prep course at Oxnard College, the student will earn college credit for the CCNA course they completed at their High School.
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Oxnard College
Spring 2009
Curriculum - One new Basic Electronics (Basic Electronics) course and one new Basic Computer Networking Course (Introduction to Computer Networking Technology) are in the curriculum review process at Oxnard College to allow for career exploration for interested students and for placement needs for students who need more preparation. It is expected these two courses will be offered in Spring 2010.
Certification - PearsonVUE testing Center - 128 students and employees from industry partners have taken Cisco and CompTIA certification exams at the Oxnard College PearsonVUE testing center since its inception in December 2007.
Collaboration - Oxnard College provided training to the Navy - (Naval Surface Warfare Center - Port Hueneme Division) to meet the D.O.D. Information Assurance Objective by providing CompTIA Network + and CompTIA Security + training and certification exams.
Department of Defense (DOD) Directive 8570.1
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) established Directive 8570.1: Information Assurance Training, Certification and Workforce Management. It requires that all DoD Information Assurance technicians and managers are trained and certified to effectively defend DoD information, information systems and information infrastructures.
Articulation - Oxnard College has renewed the Cisco articulation agreement with ROP Camarillo which provides a pathway for Oxnard Union High School students to earn college credit for the First Half of CCNA Prep if they take the Second Half of CCNA Prep at Oxnard College.
Success - OC Computer Networking student, Walter Tramontana, earned two CompTIA certifications A+ and Network+ in the past year and started his own computer repair/consultation business called "Certified Computer Help." He currently is providing support for several companies and residential customers in Ventura County and L.A. County.
Moorpark College
Spring 2009
1- Collaboration Tools - I have added www.moorparkcollege.edu/cnse links to our campus website that is a link to various Collaboration Tools with Technology to strengthen course alignments with other high schools and ROP. The Moodle and phpBB are in now in production mode.
2 - Curriculum - Ed Garcia is in the final stages of a new mysql/php course and new Microsoft server 2008 courses thru Our curriculum committee.
3 - Cisco Course improvements – Ed is using packet tracer simulation tools in the Cisco curriculum which has reinforced learning and dramatically improved the students equipment ratios.
4 - Articulation Agreements - See
http://www.statewidepathways.org/showagreements.php?careerpathid=0&go=Show+A
agreements and you'll see Moorpark college IT A+ listed. We are also in the process of getting Cisco listed ASAP. These are all templates but we do have 5 agreements this years with various high schools.
5 - Teacher training - Alex Lynch and Ed Garcia trained 6 instructors with TSW.
6 - Two of our students in our technology program from years back (1995 and 2000) went on to have great IT careers including running their own consulting businesses and are now teachers in our Dept.
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