The Enterprise
  • News
    • Local
    • Sports
    • Business
    • Education
    • Family
    • Community Calendar
    • Neighborhood News
    • State News
    • National News
  • Obituaries
  • Spiritual
    • Southern Baptist
    • Parabola
    • Transcendental Meditation
    • The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
  • eEnterprise
  • Legals
  • Classifieds
  • Contact
  • Login
Subscribe For $2.50/Month
No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Local
    • Sports
    • Business
    • Education
    • Family
    • Community Calendar
    • Neighborhood News
    • State News
    • National News
  • Obituaries
  • Spiritual
    • Southern Baptist
    • Parabola
    • Transcendental Meditation
    • The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
  • eEnterprise
  • Legals
  • Classifieds
  • Contact
  • Login
No Result
View All Result
The Enterprise
No Result
View All Result
Home Local

PHCC’s Industry 4.0 Program nets two awards

June 16, 2021
in Local
50
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Patrick Henry Community College can now certainly call its Industry 4.0 Advanced Manufacturing Training program an award-winning program. Recently, the high-tech program garnered two separate awards, back-to-back.

During a virtual ceremony published on Wednesday, PHCC received the Workforce Development Award from Community Colleges of Appalachia. PHCC was one of three colleges honored this year across the Appalachian region. The CCA 2021 Awards ceremony can be viewed at this link www.ccofapp.org/videos.

During the virtual ceremony, Dr. Nicholas Neupauer, a CCA representative, said, “(Community Colleges of Appalachia) members are very forward-thinking bright agile and frankly smart individuals. (The award winners) represent the very best of CCA.”

In a virtual ceremony on Thursday, PHCC received a Creating Excellence Award for its Industry 4.0 program. PHCC’s program was one of 10 career and technical education (CTE) programs in the state to earn the award, which is presented by the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) and the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). The Creating Excellence Award honors exemplary contributions of organizations that improve the quality of career and technical education.

To the award winners, Sharon Morrissey, the Senior Vice Chancellor of Academic & Workforce Programs at the Virginia Community College System, said “Congratulations to your innovative faculty and staff for their outstanding achievements in CTE. Their work will serve as a model for other community college/school division partnerships.”

From the time PHCC began offering Industry 4.0 training in 2018, students have earned more than 1,000 certifications. The college also was the first institution in the nation to offer all three levels of Industry 4.0 training. Because of this high-achieving program, PHCC was named an National Coalition of Certification Centers (NC3) Leadership School and became the first institution in America to be named a NC3/Festo Center of Excellence. Because of the high-demand nature of Industry 4.0 workers, this program has also been instrumental in recruiting employers in the advanced manufacturing sector to this region.

“We are so proud of what our incredible instructors and our dedicated students have been accomplishing in our CTE programs,” said Rhonda Hodges, PHCC’s Vice President of Workforce, Economic and Community Development. “I call our Industry 4.0 instructors ‘rock stars’ all the time because they truly have been staying on the cutting edge of this innovative and much-needed training. They’re ensuring that the graduates we send to our local industry partners are competitive on a global level with the most up-to-date and in-demand advanced manufacturing skills.”

In light of the success of this Industry 4.0 program, the college has decided to expand its advanced manufacturing options this fall. Students will soon be able to take two separate advanced manufacturing tracks simultaneously: Mechatronics Level 1 and Festo Industry 4.0 Level 1 Fundamentals. In this new hybrid program, called Dual Track: Automation and Robotics, students can earn both credentials in one semester – half the time it would traditionally take to earn each credential.

Previous Post

Downtown District added to registers

Next Post

Chamber Chat

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Sign up now to get weekly top stories, eEdition notifications, deals and more from The Enterprise right to your inbox.
  • Login
  • Logout
  • Subscribe To The Enterprise
  • Contact Us

© 2021 Mountain Media, LLC

No Result
View All Result
  • Local
  • Obituaries
  • Sports
  • School
  • Family
  • Business
  • Panorama
  • Opinions
  • Contact Us
  • My account
  • Subscribe To The Enterprise

© 2021 Mountain Media, LLC

Forgot your password?

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive mail with link to set new password.

Back to login

Add The Enterprise to your Homescreen!

Add