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Did you know that a student can attend CPCC's
two year engineering courses, then transfer to UNCC and complete a 4
year bachelors to get a degree in Computer, Electrical, or Electronics
Engineering.
All credit hours are transferable.
That is what the CEEET Department that I teach
Instrumentation is all about.
The courses are ABET approved
(ABET,
Inc., the recognized accredited for college and university
programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology, is
a federation of 28 professional and technical societies representing
these fields. Among the most respected accreditation organizations in
the U.S., ABET has provided leadership and quality assurance in higher
education for over 70 years.)
But so what? you may ask...Well, for one thing
the cost to attend CPCC is considerable less than attendance any of the
universities would be. For another, it is local and has modern up
to date equipment as teaching aids.
Why am I telling you this? Because we need YOUR
help. The college needs to link up with firms in the area that have a
position that can be filled by the graduates of ether the two year
Associates Degreed course.. or.. want to help students to get a head
start on a four your degreed one.
I personally invite you to take a tour of the
ATC (Advanced Technical Center) building. Most who have toured the
facility were pleasantly surprised with CPCC's capabilities.
Contact Me 704-568-9598
or Jeff
Wyco at 704-330-5496
to arrange a personalized visit.
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New to the
US, but
NOT
new
We are on the
verge of introducing a remarkable product to the American Engineering
and Design firms. I say remarkable because it does all the things that I
have wanted to do for a project and never could quite get there before.
The last project I was Lead
Engineer for a Parsons was a disaster as far as documentation was
concerned. We tried to use a piece of software that was suppose to
allow us to develop the require documentation, IE: instrument Index,
Loop sheets and Specification sheets from the application, however,
there was numerous problems with the software including report
generation that just didn't work well and in the end we had to
generate the loop sheets manually.
I had previously written the
database program that Parsons used in the Charlotte office, however, the
advent of Windows knocked it out of the box because IT said the new
stuff could do the job better. Unfortunately that wasn't the case and we
stumbled along as best we could. Then someone said we they had the answer
to our dreams, an application that could almost do it all and in the end
it was a nightmare.
I stumbled on
to
IDesignOffice and I am genuinely impressed. Take a peek at it, click on their logo below and let me
know if you are as impressed as I was!!!
Instrumentation
Design Office (IDO) is software for creating and managing industrial
instrumentation and control systems design data and documentation
including instrument datasheets, loop diagrams, termination diagrams,
hookup drawings, I/O lists, instrument index, cable schedules, Bill of
Materials and other reports.
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