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What we offer
For more than a decade, Workforce Education at Eastern Michigan
University has created high quality and cost effective training.
We have administered over $5.5 million and trained more than 4,500
workers through Michigan Economic Development Job Training Grants.
We provide project management, contract administration, instructional
design, evaluation and strategic planning consultation.
We bring a full-service support team to tend to
your organization's training needs.
We have designed, delivered
and evaluated training in joint management/labor projects for Ford,
Chrysler and General Motors. Our program models have been benchmarked
for nationwide programs.
We have a proven
track record for meeting and exceeding the expectations of our
clients.
Skills program
Eastern Michigan University has been providing
qualified instructors for 22 years through Workforce Education,
the premier vendor for providing qualified instructors of computer
technology and education inside automotive plants in southeast
Michigan. Our instructors' curriculum includes:
- Computer graphics
- Trip planning using global positioning
- Three dimensional drawing
- Business
- Basic skills
- Reading and writing
- Math
- Information Technology (IT)
Instruction provided through Skills
Enhancement Centers
Computer graphics
- Learn existing computer graphics capabilities
- Make flyers, brochures and banners
- Scan documents and photos/art
- Use creative photography with digital cameras and software
- Integrate clip-art into original art
- Create a Web page
- Develop personal resumes, letterhead and business cards
Trip planning using global positioning
- Use satellites to determine your location
- Receive and overview of available software
- Plan trips
- Learn about alternate routes, accommodations, attractions,
length of journey and finding restaurants
Three dimensional drawing
- Sample 3D software programs
- Learn absolute, relative and polar coordinates in AutoCad
- Draw with arcs and tangents
- Utilize layers and fills
- Copy, move, modify and erase objects
Business
- Use office management software to set-up voice mail, send faxes,
create address books, write checks, plan projects and utilize
calendars
- Create storyboards for PowerPoint presentations
- Calculate spreadsheets with Excel
- Master business and personal letter-writing
- Pay taxes electronically
- Develop the skills of professional written communication
- Utilize the Internet for research, purchasing and communication
- Set-up and use e-mail accounts and software
Basic Skills
- Set up and maintain a personal computer
- Customize your computer desktop
- Use integrated reading and writing software
- Receive an overview of various software applications
- Maintain discs, printers and computer
- Install new software
- Learn noting-taking, library and time-management skills
Reading and Writing
- Engage in book discussion groups
- Develop a writing portfolio
- Take part in diverse and individually selected writing projects
- Learn strategies for beginning and revising writing projects
- Create final drafts utilizing word processing software
- Learn to create meeting agendas and minutes, memos and other
business writing
- Increase your vocabulary and spelling skills
Math
- Metric system
- Shop math
- Fundamentals of algebra and beyond
- Variables, formulas and equations
- Pre-calculus and analytical geometry
- Probability and statistics
- Statistical quality control
- SPC math with direct application to manufacturing
- Simple and compound interest calculations
- Measurement as applied to building
- Material needs calculations
- Building project estimates
- Decimals, fractions and percents
- Math and graphing with a calculator
Information Technology (IT)
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- AutoCad
- Catia
- Blueprint reading
- MS Office
- Lotus Notes 1 and 2
- PLC programming
- Windows
- Wind
- Ercosek user training
- IDEAS
- XML
- Data mining
- TIMS
- Unigraphics
- Powertrain Tech
- Gibbs/CAM
Customized Training
Workforce Education is able to respond quickly to your company's
training needs and to develop and customize curriculum to prepare
your employees to excel as they adjust to new technologies and
environments.
Case study:
In 2002, Workforce Education was approached by the co-chairs at
the UAW-Ford Dearborn Assembly Plant and was asked to participate
in a training opportunity. The state and national economies were
struggling and there was a need to train workers to use the plant's
new wireless technology in the new UAW-Ford Dearborn Truck plant.
The EMU computer/math instructor working in the Skills Academy
at the assembly plant met with representatives who explained what
instruction was needed. Our instructor then created the curriculum
and provided instruction to the product specialists for a one-and-a-half
year period. We were thrilled in Workforce Education to be part
of such an important training initiative and hope to provide more
of this type of instruction in the future.
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