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Adopt a School Model
Machining Manufacturing Alliance
Academic Pathways Committee

A model was suggested during our Academic Pathways Committee meeting in June that is similar to a recruiting model used by the Niagara Frontier Auto Dealer’s Association. This model proposes that a manufacturing company "adopt" a high school as a means to communicate the growing need for a young workforce. In this model, a company would concentrate its efforts with just one school or school district. One person within the company is given primary responsibility for this project. This representative would contact the school’s principal or guidance office and indicate their interest in adopting their school. Examples of the activities planned for the school year might include:

  • Company representative visiting the tech classes and presenting about manufacturing careers
  • Company representative meeting with the guidance staff to talk about the local workforce needs
  • Arranging for student or teacher tours through their facility
  • Submitting articles to the district newsletters that are mailed to students’ homes.
  • Working with student newspapers to have articles written about manufacturing careers
  • Summer job or internship for interested students
  • Scholarships for interested students to pursue machining or manufacturing in college
  • Providing professional development opportunities for teachers

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Programs for High School Students
ECC Creating Pathways into Manufacturing

Academic Degree Programs:

ECC offers two academic programs that lead students into Manufacturing careers.  (1) Mechanical Engineering Technology is an A.A.S. degree program offered at North Campus.  (2) Industrial Technology is an A.O.S. degree program also offered at North Campus.

ECC has entered into partnership with many local high schools to encourage students who started career training in machine trades or manufacturing in high school to continue that education in college.  Students can receive college credit for work done in high school if they achieved an 85-percent average and completed all course work in high school.  By offering this credit, it eliminates the need to duplicate work and will hopefully increase retention in these programs:

High School High School Program ECC Program Number
of Credits
Hutch Tech Ford Academy of
Manufacturing		 Indus Tech 7
McKinley Machine Tool Indus Tech
Mech Eng Tech		 8
5
Erie 1 BOCES Machine Trades Indus Tech
Mech Eng Tech		 8
2
Erie 2 BOCES Machine Trades Indus Tech
Mech Eng Tech		 8
4
Hamburg Ford Academy of
Manufacturing   		Indus Tech 7
Orleans Niagara
BOCES		 Machine Trades Indus Tech
Mech Eng Tech		 8
5
Alden
Clarence
Depew
Frontier
Lakeshore
Lancaster
Maryvale
Springville
Sweet Home
West Seneca
Williamsville

Project Lead the Way
-Engineering Curriculum

Indus Tech
Mech Eng Tech

8
4

 

Academic Courses:

ECC is offering a 3-credit AutoCad course to Buffalo Public School Machine Trades students during the Spring 2005 semester.  The course will be held at ECC-City Campus and will be open to 12 to 15 students currently in their junior or senior year of high school.  The course will be held after school and run from February 8 through May 12.  Its purpose is to provide students with valuable drafting/computer skills and to encourage the students to continue their education in manufacturing after high school.