NCC shows off high tech additions
Post on: 2011-11-02 By: admin
Those looking to get a glimpse of the future of education need look no further than Nash Community College.
In a special VIP open house Thursday, Nash Community College staff unveiled two of the college’s most recent gems – the interactive Math Tank and the computer-integrated machining robotics laboratory.
“We’re glad to show off a little bit today,” Nash Community College President Dr. Bill Carver said. “We’re proud to be the crossroads community college here on I-95 and U.S. 64 that has some new concepts for learning that we think should be in the market when it comes to work force preparedness.”
Nash Community College students already are benefitting from the innovative instructional styles demonstrated at the open house, College Board of Trustees Chairman Bill Marshburn said.
“The college focus remains on instruction and student success,” Marshburn said. “Math Tank provides students a place where they will receive individual tutorial assistance, computer access and instructional resources.”
The new Math Tank, loaded with computer pods and several interactive, wall-mounted Starboards, will allow students to move quicker through developmental math than they have in the past, said Ginny Stokes, department chairwoman of mathematics and sciences.
“We wanted a modern, open and inviting space. We didn’t want any barriers to student learning,” Stokes said. “We wanted students to come in here and know that they could focus on math and only math. We don’t offer any other subject matter in this space.”
The Math Tank is set up to be conducive to flexible pace learning, and the room’s pod arrangement facilitates communication between students without disturbing others.
“We don’t want students waiting on instruction. Students can move at their pace as they are ready,” Stokes said.
Grading homework has been automated, and students can receive immediate feedback, so they can identify exactly where they have gone wrong right on the spot, she said.
Mathematics and Sciences Professor Dina Pitt said in order to continue to meet the needs of students and increase retention rates, the department decided to retool the traditional lecture program to incorporate lecture, lab, facilitating and individualized instruction.
“Now we have the technology to move forward,” Pitt said. “We are all concerned and committed to the students at Nash Community College. Math can be learned and is fun in the Math Tank.”
Instructors and college staff demonstrated on the Starboard how to graph equations, display keystrokes on a oversized calculator and monitor each student’s screen remotely to provide support and deter student temptations to visit Facebook and YouTube.
In the machine shop section of campus, a newly acquired, state-of-the-art robot systematically rotated between machines, precisely dropping metal bars to be shaved into complimentary gifts for those on the tour.
In the Zifferer Family New Standard Corp. Computer-Integrated Machining Lab, students already are learning first-hand the reality of working on factory assembly lines by utilizing a new Advanced Flexible Integrated Manufacturing system.
The “cell,” as engineering and manufacturing technologies professor Tim Brown calls it, was made possible through a $200,000 Golden LEAF grant.
“This is a great opportunity that we were able to provide through this grant money to Nash County,” Brown said. “(The cell) really provides real-world training where we get to put the educational ideas and the thought processes into an actual working environment.”
Brown said Nash Community College is hoping to display to smaller manufacturing shops in Nash County the economical benefits of employing this type of robot machining technology.
“We’ve got several classes that work with this,” Brown said. “It’s really going to be an invaluable tool for us here at Nash, and to be able to show this to industries who want to come here and show that we can do high-tech turnout.”
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