Update as of August 22, 2013

Hi all – If you remember, OC had collaborated with industry and faculty for a few AW wide curriculum development sessions and developed a Google site to store related Electronics documents.  We took your input on the curriculum objectives for the 1 year Electronics Certificate and have been working to develop the curriculum pieces for online publication.  I am pleased to announce that we have made some significant headway. 

For those of you that don’t know, Tom Jacobs, our Instructional Designer moved on to another employer.  In his efforts, he was assisted by Rebecca Evenhus and she has taken on the coordination and development of this for OC.  She has now posted online all of our labs associated with our Elect 111 (DC Circuits Laboratory), and Elect 112 (Alternating Current Circuit Lab).   Elect 113 (Basic Solid-State Laboratory), Elect 166 (Introduction to Digital Logic), and Elect 106 (Electronics Fabrication) should be uploaded soon.  That means that all of the labs for the 1 year cert will be available online!   We are just starting to upload the first two modules of the DC Theory class (Elect 101) and we are hoping to start cranking out two modules per week. 

We want your feedback and hope to engage in a group discussion.  In fact, this is actually a grant deliverable!  The Google site is not overly conducive to posting from others, so we have set up a Wiggio page.  You will be invited to this via email.  Please accept membership to this group, which will offer direct links to the curriculum modules and will also allow you  to provide your feedback.     

I look forward to hearing your comments! 

Best regards,

Stephanie Thompson

Air Washington Grant Manager

Olympic College

(360) 475-7839

sthompson2@olympic.edu

Revised Draft of the AW 1 year Certificate

Colleagues,
Please review the revised draft of the curriculum.  The majority of the changes were removal of duplicates and typo corrections.  If there are any substantive changes you would like to see, please let us know.

Tom Jacobs
tjacobs@olympic.edu

Draft of Objectives for 1 yr certificate Ready for Feedback

As promised at the Electronics Workshop, I am happy to announce the first draft of the objectives for the 1 year certificate which we are currently calling the Air Washington Electronics Technician B certificate.  It has been posted on the website and is ready for your comments, suggestions, feedback, etc.  Craig, Rebecca, and I are truly looking for input, so please let us know what you would like to see.

The website is:

https://sites.google.com/site/airwashingtonocelectronics/curriculum-development

Thank you!

Tom Jacobs

Recap from the 6/20/2012 Meeting

Thanks to you all for attending the Electronics Curriculum Workshop last week and welcome to our Google site!   If you check out “Workshop Files” you will see both Craig and Dick’s PowerPoint presentations, as well as the updated KSAs from Boeing. 

Through our discussions, it was noted that there are many commonalities between the college programs, however, there is still some work to do to identify the core content of a standardized curriculum that we can all use. There was emphasis placed on the obligation to not just match the needs of our aerospace partners, but the local employers as well.  Olympic College has nearly finished establishing that the one year certificate we offer meets the KSA requirements of Boeing’s Electronics Technician B, as well as the needs of our local employers.  We will crosswalk the learning outcomes for each of our classes that make up our one year certificate and provide them to the group.  Once that is posted, we would encourage each college to review the learning outcomes with their own classes and make any changes or suggestions via this blog.

In our first meeting last March, we identified the learning outcomes for the entry level Wire Assembler position.  Although there may be somewhat limited opportunities for employment as a Wire Assembler, there are still job opportunities available and at the completion of the certificate, students could also test for the MECP, the industry credential for vehicle electronic installation technicians.  We are considering making a slight adjustment to the classes that go into our one quarter certificate, and ensure that the classes they take feed into the one year program.  In this instance, we will be able to count the one quarter completers.  This information will also be available via our site.

If I have forgotten or misrepresented anything here, please let me know. 

Thank you!

Stephanie Thompson

Air Washington Grant Manager