WORKFORCE TRAINING

The Center for Manufacturing Technology Excellence (CMTE) is a major new initiative of the partnership for industry and education to link a research university, a regional university, a technical training center, several regional and local economic development organizations, and the state economic and community development agency. This effort is designed to improve the East Mississippi region’s ability to provide highly skilled, technically proficient workers. Additionally, the center will enhance the delivery of technology transfer services, assisting new and existing industries with improved productivity. Located on the Golden Triangle Campus of East Mississippi Community College, CMTE began operation in the fall of 1998.

To be competitive in attracting new industries and in retaining existing industries, our workforce must be capable of thinking critically and understanding relationships between devices, systems, and tasks. The Center for Manufacturing Technology Excellence will assist in building a technically competent workforce of new and existing workers by providing an environment in which needed skills can be taught.

• CMTE provides "workplace specific training" in order for workers to learn to use evolving technology for an information-based manufacturing age.

• CMTE is designed to enhance East Mississippi Community College's programs and services to the area’s workforce. This includes Skill Tech, which works with business and industry clients to determine and deliver comprehensive, customized workforce education and teams with CMTE staff to provide workplace specific training.

• CMTE provides high bay training space and other laboratories that can be dedicated to specific projects, configured for training tasks and remain fixed for the entire training time.