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F ebruary 18, 2004
T he C lackamas P rint • 3
Barlow revamps for electronics program
Sara Atkeson
T he C lackamas P rint
The electronics program will
soon be moving from their OIT
Harmony campus location to
Barlow Hall’s former welding
space on the Oregon City campus,
which is being renovated to
accommodate their needs.
With the electronics program
here on the main campus, it will be
more convenient and accessible
for students.
“Now, once you get to campus,
you can just stay here and you
don’t have to be driving in rush
hour traffic on 82nd Avenue,” said
Manufacturing
Technology
Department Chair Mike Mattson.
“This move will be beneficial by
letting people know about our
electronic degree programs and
that there are good jobs out there
and these degrees are available
here.”
Mattson recently took a tour of
the remodeled Barlow space.
“It doesn’t look anything like a
welding lab now,” he said.
The clean-up process was
extensive, with workers scraping
the walls to peel off the layers of
soot and debris Mused by the pre­
vious welding occupants.
The area was then divided into
three spaces. One will be a general
classroom and the others will be
used as a flex lab space, meaning
one part will house the computers
for use in the Computer
Numerical Control (CNC) classes
and the second will be an open bay
area where machines can be
stored. .
The larger .location will more
suitably house the vast amount of
equipment the electronics depart­
ment requires for their “hands-on”
curriculum.
Students will have access to a
computer lab, which will primarily
be used for semi-conductor manu­
facturing on CD-ROM. This lab
will also serve as an overflow area
that will give the college the ability'
to offer two electronics programs
at the same- time by splitting their
workplace into two areas.
“It’s kind of a strange area
where you need a computer lab, so
you need this nice high-tech lab
space, but at the same time, to
teach the „class. you' have a kind of
'I’hinking.aboiit majoring in.
English, but don’t see how an English
degree can lead to a career?
CCC’s second annual “Meet and Greet,” will be
today from 3-5 p.m. in the Literary Arts Center, in
R ook Hall. Speaker Mat Coffey will be sharing his own expe­
rience on how a degree in journalism helped him acquire a high-
. powered career in management for the Xerox Corporation.
Learn how a degree in English, can help:
Writing skills
Communication skills
How one is perceived professionally
Improve thought and discipline
Resume writing
Technical writing
E-mail communications
Articulation skills
Confidence
Improve grammar
“Your whole life can be determined by
one letter, properly written.”
—Mat Coffey
dirty lab space to put your
machines in,” said Mattson.
The entire electronics program,
consisting of two different
degrees, will be moved to their
new space in Barlow in stages.
Classes will continue during the
move.
“We hope it will be seamless,
but we’ll see,” said Mattson. “It is-
going to be a very positive move,
for us to get these two degree pro­
grams on campus, because right
now they are off campus and they
tend to get forgotten about.” ■'
Part-time welding instructor
Stuart Strader has been carefully
managing the remodel process,
working to get the best deal he can
with a limited budget of about
$100,000.
“This will allow them to have a
lab that works better because of
the proximity,” said Strader. “It’s
much more efficient,”
Despite the funding challenges
and the week long set back cour­
tesy of the snowstorm, Mattson
said the electronics department
looks forward to the transition,
but will be happy when the mov­
ing is over.
A worker
wires
lighting in
one of
three new
spaces
created in
Barlow
Hall.
Originally
one large
L-shaped
room,
newly built
walls
create a
general
classroom,
and two
“flex lab”
spaces to
be used to
house
class
computers
and
machines.
The commemoration of the 200th anniver­
sary of the Lewis and Clark expedition is in full
swing.
What were these legends doing 200 years
ago? An excerpt from the book “Lewis and
Clark Pioneering Naturalists,” written by Paul
Cutright, gives an insight to where they were and
what they were doing.
Merriweather Lewis and William Clark were
camped at Camp Dubois making preparations
for die continuance of their journey as soon as
the snow melted.
They bought “articles which may be want­
ing,” according to the book. These included five
barrels of pork, five barrels of flout, 25 %'
bushels of lyed com (hominy) and several gal­
lons of “Woodsford’s whiskey 1 Doi. Pr. Gal.”
They melted 200 pounds of tallow with 50
pounds of hog’s lard which, after cooling, they
stored in small whiskey kegs.
They also worked on sending back two
boxes of collected specimens to Thomas
Jefferson. In these boxes were things like a
homed toad, cuttings from local trees and
shrubs and other plant and animal life that was
undiscovered by science at the time.
-—Compiled by Sara Atkeson