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New ITC building celebrated
Q&A ON THE RECENTLY OPENED ITC BUILDING WITH MIKE MATTSON, DEPARTMENT CHAIR OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
Editorial
Q: Can you tell me a little about the new
building?
Editor-in-Chief
Victoria Durling
A: W ell, th e ITC is the Industrial Technology
C en ter. T h is b u ild in g w ill h o u se o u r tw o
chiefed@clackamas.edu
m ach in in g program s. So, it’ll h ou se w h a t’ s
called m anufacturing technology, w h ic h is a
m achine tool program , so it’s training people
Managing Editor
Jared Preble
to b e m achinists. It’ll also house w h a t w e call
com puter aided m anufacturing and com puter
maned@clackamas.edu
Arts & Culture Editor
Ian Van Orden
aided manufacturing, also a m achining degree.
It also co n ta in s a n u m b e r o f C A D c la sses,
in d u strial electro n ics an d au tom atio n . So,
it ’ s m o re fo r th e p erso n w h o is in tere sted
.in th e au tom atio n, h ig h p rodu ction side o f
aced@clackamas.edu
Sports Editor
m anufacturing, so th ey’ll le am about robotics
for example. So those are two different degrees.
It also is the renewable energy program and the
Jacob Thompson
industrial m aintenance technology, w h ich is
sportsed@clackamas.edu
so closely related to that.
Q: What has the building offered that was
not previously available?
f, students and community on Oct 5.
A : W e ll, e v e r y th in g is s till av aila b le.
Program m atically, noth in gs really changed.
Q: What are the benefitsofamanufacturing
degree?
I’m gom g to leam this and thenl’m goingtogo get
aren’t as popular as they were a generation ago.
a job. Apprenticeships have their place, but they
really unsuitable environm ent, a very crowded,
A: A student can leave in a very short period
old, unsuitable environm ent, that w as scabbed
o f tim e, they can com e in here and certainly in
Q: Between going into school and takingthe
togetheroutofthatw ingofB arlow H allthatw as
one or two term s they can get enough skills to
entry-level classes and working your way up
b u ilt4o som eyears ago as a diesel lab. Over the
get an entry level job, a $ i4 o r$ i5 an hour job. If
or taking an apprenticeship, what would you
years it ’ s been scabbed together to be a m achine
they w ant to spend two years here and actually
suggest for somebody who is just starting out?
shop, a w elding shop, the print shop used to be
leam to be a machinist, now you’re looking at
A: It just depends on your life circumstances.
over there. The second story w a sn ’t even over
beginning wages closer to $20 an hour. W ith a
Ideally you would k n ow w hatyp u’re going to do
there. It w as put in as an addition. It w as never
few years’ experience you can start pushing out
w h en you’re getting out o f high school. I k n e w .
suitable as.a m achineshop.Tt w as crowded, old,
over $30 an hour. N ow you’re talking about real
w h at I w as going to do before I got out o f high
dirty, so w ew en tfro m ab outi3 ,ooo square-feet
m oney, the kind o f m oney you can raise a fam ily
school. I knew our fam ily didn’t have m oney to
in Barlow Hall to about 43,000 square-feet. It’s
on. You can’t do that on $15 an hour.
send m e to college. I knew I w as going to have
significant.
Q: Are apprenticeship programs still an
W ew ere sharingthreedifferentbuildings on
alternative?
A: W ell, y ou ’ll see apprenticeships m ore in
in on e spot. T hat really m ak es life easier on
the construction trades. So, there’s two licensed
w ith the m etal working side and so I prepared
students and instructors. That also helped US
trades in O regon w h ere you have to serve an
m yself to be able to get a job right out o f high
consolidate the IndustrialMaintenance Program
ap p ren ticesh ip . T h a t’ s an electrician and
school. Ideally ayoungperson would know that
w hich is kind o f a new, burgeoning program, as
plumber. Everything else is hit or miss. There’s
and be able to do it today. W e see it less and less
they share about 70 percent o f the sam e classes
som e carpentry apprenticeships and there aré
all the time.
and the tools and the labs.
som e steam fitter apprentices. Com panies can
So, if you’re a young person graduating from
high school and you can take classes before you
The bond also allowed us to upgrade our old
form their o w n apprenticeship. For exam ple,
equipm ent. W e g ot rid o f ev ery single p iece
Boeing has several apprenticeships. They have
graduate high school or soon thereafter, every
o f our com puter-controlled equipm ent. The
one in m achining, as for electricians they have
year you w ork after that you’re going to m ake
old est pieces w ere 28 years old. T he n ew est
one for industrial maintenance, blit it’s kind o f
m ore than som ebody w ith just a high school
piece o f CNC equipm ent w e had w as u y e a rs old.
hit or m iss w ith the apprenticeships.
diploma. That’s the ideal w a y to do it. I also tell
Everything else w as kind o f in betw een there:
You don’t see too m any in m achining. There
students thatyour life will get more complicated.
15,20 years old and it w as getting outdated fast. •
are still som e com panies that still have them ,
It is never going to get easier, it’s only going to
T he n ew m achin es are m u ch m ore capable.
like Boeing has a big one, and Leatherman tool
get harder.
W h e n y o u ’re tryin g to attract stu d en ts to a
group hasadyemaintenanceapprenticeship. But
So, g o to sch o o l w h ile yo u r life is d ess
p rogram and y o u ’re tellin g th e m how_ h ig h
those are m ore rare. I guess the problem I have
complicated. Before you have a family, before
tech it is and th e y w a lk in and th e y see this
withapprénticeships is thatyou have to have the
jobbeforeyoucangetintothetraining.Itdoesn’t
you havea mortgage, beforeyouhave parenting
állow you to kind o f bootstrap yourself. Say hey
Take care o f it soon.
com puter controlled m achine that looks like
it’s got vacuum tubes in it, it’s a pretty hard sell.
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preparing m yself. Hove woodworking and Hove
m etalworking and I really started falling in love
tw o different cam puses. N ow th ey are all here
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