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ITS PCB All Levels Workshop #1
March 27-28, 2019 | Florida Department of Transportation District 7 in Tampa, Florida

Day 2 Presentation | March 28, 2019

Advanced Transportation Center

Presenter: Al Lecz
Presenter’s Org: Advanced Transportation Center (ATC), Washtenaw Community College (WCC)
Presenter: Neil Gudsen
Presenter’s Org: Advanced Transportation Center, Washtenaw Community College

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The slides in this presentation contain the Washtenaw Community College logo.

Slide 1: Advanced Transportation Center

Al Lecz, Director of Advanced Transportation Center
Neil Gudsen, Program Development Manager, Economic, Community & College Development

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Slide 2: ATC Beginnings

Approach
- Provide quality teaching and learning experiences meeting business and industry needs
- Prepare students for careers in emerging mobility infrastructure technologies
- Create a pipeline to develop talent for high-skill careers
Combines
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Advanced Automotive Service & Repair
- Lightweight Materials/Manufacturing

[This slide contains a computer rendition of a connected autonomous vehicle made up of a grid of clear triangular polygons with a bright green light emanating from the center top of its windshield.]

Slide 3: ATC Gaining Momentum

[This slide contains two images: (1) a photo of seven people cutting a ribbon during the opening of a new facility and (2) a photo of two men, both wearing safety glasses, observing the work of a robot.]

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[This slide contains an image in the center of twelve logos: MICH Auto | Michigan’s Automotive Accelerator, PlanetM, AUTO-ISAC | Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center, ITS Michigan | Intelligent Transportation Society, American Center for Mobility, SAE International, sme, Spark | @nn arbor usa, UMITRI | University of Michigan | Transportation Research Institute, CAR | Center for Automotive Research, CCAT | Center for Connected and Automated Transportation, and Square One | Educational Network | the future starts with us. The center image is a circle with four color-coded interlocking puzzle pieces surrounding the center, which is title “Advanced Transportation Center.” The four puzzle pieces are labeled “Professional Organizations,” “Education,” “Industry,” and “Government.”]

Slide 5: (No title)

Five partnering universities focused upon research into future transportation needs and solutions

Traffic Control and Operations
Infrastructure Design and Management
Human Factors
Policy and Planning
Modeling and Implementation
Enabling Technologies

[This slide contains a graphic image which looks like the cover a research paper or a poster. The background the paper/poster is an aerial photo of an urban grid with arcs connecting various points which illustrate the concept of connected infrastructure. There is text over this background image: “WCC Automotive students interned as mechanical technician associates at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, serving 3,000 vehicles in the Institute’s connected vehicle test environment.”]

Slide 6: Workforce Professional Development

Certified Fiber Optics Training

85% Hands-On Activities
Fiber installation, splicing, and testing.
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Affordability
Our fiber optics certification program costs less than other programs available.* Certification test vouchers included in the class fee.
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Immediate Results
Earn a fiber optics certification in as little as two days or get all three in just one week!
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Employability
In Detroit alone, salaries for certified fiber optics technicians are 30% higher than the national average*.
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[In addition to the images listed above, this slide contains three images (1) a photo of the end of a fiber optic cable showing its component fiber optic wires, (2) a photo of two men in hard hats working on electronic equipment, and (3) the Fiber Optic Association (FOA), Inc. logo.]

Slide 7: Collaboration with Business and Industry

[This slide contains two images: (1) a photo of a group of people (students, instructors, and business and industry members) in front of a car in a workshop and (2) a photo of a person lecturing about connected autonomous vehicles to a group of people. Behind the lecturer is a display of vehicle components.]

Slide 8: ATC Going Forward

Continuous improvement and upgraded educational courses, programs and workforce skill development
Smart Cities and CCAT Global Symposiums
Complete the development of the Advanced Transportation Center, a new building with key cross-functional instructional labs
Continued leadership in cybersecurity education, including implementation of the Automotive Cybersecurity Educator workbench
Continued collaborations and engagement with business, industry, educational partners, government and economic developers

Slide 9: Thank you.

For more information, visit http://sites.wccnet.edu/atc/

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