COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN & DRAFTING
ADVISORY COMMITTEE MINUTES
October 1, 2014
3:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m.
Meeting Room: Joan Stout Hall, Room 115
Members Present: Eric Ramme, Committee Vice Chair, MacKay Sposito; Thomas Johansen, Johansen Architects; John Parkin, Parkin Engineering, Inc.; Pattie Wenholz, Express Fire Systems; Ron Lermo, Meister Consulting LLC; Matt Porter, DeaMor
Members Not Present: Nick Edgar, Timberline Product Design; Eric Fivecoats, Pro-Tech Industries; Tom Syfrett, Parsons Brinckerhoff; Doug Pruitt, BBL Architects; Rich Schoof, Christensen Shipyards; Tony Graham, SEH America
Clark College: Keith Stansbury, CADD Professor; Susan Mangin, Adjunct/Evergreen School District; Peter Williams, Dean of STEM; Rachele Bakic, Interim Director of Academic Services; Andreana DiGiorgio, Secretary Sr., Advisory Committees
Committee Vice Chair, Eric Ramme called the meeting to order at 3:07 p.m.
Review of the Minutes of the Previous Meeting
A motion was made to approve both the January 10, 2014 and June 18, 2014 meeting minutes as written. The motion was seconded and unanimously approved.
Office of Instruction
Interim Director of Academic Services, Rachele Bakic, introduced herself and began with the advisory committee website & updated handbook – She told the committee that Clark College has a new web content manager and showed members how to navigate from the main page of the Clark website to the advisory websites. The committee handbook has been updated with new information. She said they can find the member nomination form on page 12 of the handbook. Members can nominate using the form or call or email Andreana to begin the new member process.
Perkins funding award. This year the college was awarded $608,925 in Perkins funding. Rachele explained that Perkins dollars help fund CTE curriculum development and revision, advising, tutoring, disability support services and computer lab support for CTE students. Of those dollars, approximately $32,214 in summer curriculum projects was awarded. Due to a decrease in funding level and the commitment to fund other initiatives, there are no Perkins equipment dollars this year.
Worker retraining award. The award was $1,023,198. Most of the funding supports faculty salaries, instructional techs, financial aid and advising support.
Credit for Prior Learning (CPL). – Rachele reported that the focus of CPL is on course challenges and reviewing incoming industry certifications. Students may be assessed through various processes that will determine the degree to which learning outcomes have been met. She said students will be charged a flat fee of $255 for course challenges. This will primarily benefit students taking 3, 4, 5 or 6 credit hour courses. Students requesting a course challenge for a 1 or 2 credit hour course will not realize the financial benefit but
may realize time savings. Rachele said that a major difference in this and the previous way Clark “waived” courses is that this program will ensure the course(s) are listed on the students’ transcripts with a “pass/fail”. She asked members if they have employees who would like to return to school and want to see what certifications or perhaps life experiences they might receive credit for, to have them contact Kim Marshel, Associate Director of Credit Articulation, at 360-992-2358 or .
Advisory Committee Recognition event – Rachele announced that the College is planning an advisory member recognition breakfast on March 18, 2015 from 7:30—9:00 a.m. Regional economist Scott Bailey will be guest speaker and will give an economic report on the state of Washington and also our region. She told the members to be watching for more information in the coming weeks.
Director/Division Chair/Department Head Report
CAD CAM BAS update. Keith spoke about the possibility of a baccalaureate of applied science degree. This would be a four year, applied degree. He has been trying to obtain information about these applied degrees and shared the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) website: www.sbctc.ctc.edu/college. This website lists all the community colleges that offer bachelor degrees in the state of Washington. We would need to offer 300 and 400 level classes, and they will need to be created if we move forward with this. Keith said he’ll do more research and report back at the next advisory meeting. The Mechatronics program offers great skill sets and could be coupled with solid engineering and be a great 4-yr degree as there is some overlap with other programs at Clark.
Work Plan
The committee reviewed the work plan and made the following updates:
1. Implement and track associate degree enrollment and completion. This item has been completed and removed from the work plan.
2. Investigate new software applications for architecture. This item has been completed and removed from the work plan.
3. Internships. Keith reported that right now there are two students interning at Cadet (heaters). These students are going through the CAM/CAD program. He asked if there were any marketing intern spots available. Susan Mangin said she recently received an email from Rich Schoof at Christensen Shipyards who is looking for two students for internship or hire. Keith said he’d follow up with Rich. The committee talked about having an open house for potential internship locations. They all thought it would be a good idea. Eric offered to send an email to the committee asking for a list of companies and contact names of people who might hire interns or need employees.
4. Examine and provide input for classroom and equipment needs for the program. The classroom is only being used as an open lab and will be used again when enrollment increases. This item will go on hold for now.
Added to work plan for 2014-15:
1. Susan would like to recruit students at the high school level. We’ll need to establish a contact list of high school contacts. Skyview High School has a strong architecture program. Susan will send a list of CADD teachers from Skyview to Keith.
2. A discussion of committee membership took place. “Recruit New Members” was added to the work plan. During the discussion the committee decided to move some members who have not been attending the meetings to “guest status.” These members are: Eric Fivecoates, Rich Schoof, and Tony Graham.
New Business
Fall Quarter enrollments & Bingen update. Keith talked about a course he’s teaching this quarter. He has 22 on the roster and looks like he is over enrolled by one student.
Bingen Campus. Basic AutoCAD class began last week in Bingen. There are a total number of eight students in Bingen with total capacity at 10 students. The classroom is in the Zepher Building.
BAS for CADD/CAM. Tabled for now.
Committee Bylaws. Eric Ramme agreed to take a look at the bylaws that Andreana marked up with projected changes and updates. Bylaws and constitution will be discussed at the next meeting.
Election of Officers. A motion was made to elect Matt Porter to committee chair. The motion was seconded and unanimously approved. Another motion was made to elect Eric Ramme to vice chair. The motion was seconded and unanimously approved. Thank you to the new officers.
Next meeting date
The committee agreed to meet again on Wednesday, March 11, 2015 from 3—5 p.m. Andreana will send a Save the Date to the committee.
The meeting adjourned at 4:58 p.m.
Prepared and submitted by Andreana DiGiorgio
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