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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The KTECH® Vision

Our vision is to establish and sustain a pipeline between industry and a certified employment pool.

The KTECH® Mission

Our mission is to provide specialized workforce training and credentialing for high demand occupations to a targeted, under-served population thereby addressing the following three areas: industry’s need for skilled workers, community’s need for increased employment rates and the individual’s need to be a productive, contributing member of society.


The KTECH® Training

KTECH is a licensed private school under the Alabama Community College System. 

 

KTECH offers training leading to credentials in soldering and robotics. These certifications are available through our Certificate track. Students can select to Level Up with all of our certifications or select the ones that interest them the most. 

 

The KTECH soldering course comprises 56 hours featuring minimal classroom instruction and intensive hands-on practice. Successful students can choose to sit for the 40-hour IPC J-STD-001 Certified Application Specialist credential, taught by our own Certified IPC Trainer. Our industrial robotics program comprises 48 hours of instruction and hands-on practice leading to Yaskawa Academy credentials in FS100 Operation and FS100 Basic Programming with Material Handling.

Critical Issues Facing Alabama’s Manufacturing Sector

  • Budgetary pressures at the state and local levels

  • Ever-changing technology

  • Average age of the skilled, American worker is now 59

  • High cost of training, recruitment and moving expenses

  • Loss of apprenticeship programs

  • Meeting the needs of new industry recruitment  in our area

  • High school graduates lack of career readiness


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Life Lab

Enrollment in Life Lab is included in the enrollment for the Mechatronics series, and is a required component of the Mechatronics program.

 

The Life Lab curriculum is embedded in the program training experience and includes lecture, discussion, hands-on application, projects and cooperative learning which are broken up into 4 series of classes: character, wisdom, knowledge and influence.

KTECH Programs

Diploma Track

Mechatronics Lab

Credential:

Level 1 Siemens Certified Mechatronics System Assistant

MECH 1100 

Electrical Components

MECH 1200

Mechanical Components and Electrical Drives

MECH 1300

(Electro) Pneumatic and Hydraulic Control Circuits

MECH 1500

Digital Fundamentals and Programmable Logic Controllers

Certificate Track​

Soldering Lab

Credential:

IPC-J-STD-001 Certified

IPC Application Specialist

 

Essentials of Industrial Soldering (56 hours)

  • Intro to Soldering (16 hours)

  • Hand Soldering Practice    (40 hours)

 

Robotics Lab

Credential:

Yaskawa Industrial Robotic

Certification in FS100 Basic

  • Intro to Robotics (16 hours)

  • Certification (32 hours)

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