April 16, 2008
For Immediate Release
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Gordon Stokes
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The U.S. Department of Labor has approved a $1,756,637 grant for UVSC’s School of Technology and Computing. The grant will fund several of the school’s initiatives, including the training of local high school teachers in the use of mechatronics kits built around LEGO’s Mindstorm computer.
The grant will also support the designing and building of a student-centered, web-assisted, project-oriented learning environment at UVSC for the mechatronics program, the acquiring of a robotics-centered, computer-automated manufacturing laboratory and to provide financial assistance to students in the mechatronics program.
“UVSC has the only mechatronics AAS degree program in the state of Utah,” said Gordon Stokes, grant manager. “We are just pleased that we had an academic program proposal that the program considered worthy of funding.”
The grant was one of 341 submitted with only 69 granted - two in Utah. The other grant went to the Davis Applied Technology College, but in a different skills area than the UVSC grant addresses.
“Our grant will provide a synergism for the mechatronics program to excite faculty and students by providing state-of-the-art laboratory facilities at UVSC and by reaching out to generate student interest in mechatronics in the high school CTE programs of the mountainland region,” said Stokes.
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