Tech’s Community and Technical College Receives
“Programs of Excellence” Honors
 

Tech’s Community and Technical College was recently honored with the prestigious designation of “Programs of Excellent” for two outstanding degree programs, The Electrical Engineering Technology program and the Electronics Engineering Technology program. Conducted by the WVU Board of Governors, the program review process bases the award on a program’s number of graduates, job placement statistics, assessments, faculty, and exemplary curriculum. This comprehensive review included every engineering technology and engineering program in the WVU system, and only Tech’s Community and Technical College Electrical Engineering Technology program and Electronics Engineering Technology program met and surpassed all the criteria.

 With course structure of the Electrical Engineering Technology Program, students receive instruction in areas of fundamental, analog and digital devices, basic communications, and machines and power. This program is designed to allow student to receive their two-year associates degree that is useful in today’s high-demand technology jobs with the average starting salary beginning at $28,000 per year. In conjunction, the Electronics Engineering Technology Program is a two-year plus program that extends the associate degree into a four-year baccalaureate degree. The program offers advanced courses in digital devices, communications, programmable logical controllers, and course work in UNIX programming language. A graduate of this program receives an average starting salary of $37,000 per year. Also, graduates from either program have attained a very high placement rate in fields such as telecommunications, biomedical, manufacturing, gas and oil exploration, and many more with virtually 100% placement with relocation.

 Tech’s Community and Technical College will be implementing a variety of new programs for this semester including two-year programs in Technical Studies in Diesel Technology, Restaurant Management with emphasis in Business Technology, and Computer and Information Technology with emphasis in computer repair and A+ certification, as well as a one-year certificate program in General Studies designed to pull together general education curricula for a solid foundation in health-related programs. In 1998, the Community and Technical College was selected as a regional Cisco Networking Academy Program providing Cisco Certification Network Associate (CCNA) in levels 1-4, and recently became only one of two schools in the state that offers the expanded certification of levels 5-8 through the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).

 If you would like more information on West Virginia University Institute of Technology and Community and Technical College, please call 1-888-554-TECH or log-on at www.wvutech.edu.