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The Hanson Technology Center – A defining asset for the College and the Region
The region’s manufacturing and energy industries have made it clear – they need more well-qualified employees to help power their businesses. To meet that demand now and for generations to come, Lake Michigan College is developing the Hanson Technology Center – an asset that will solidify manufacturing as a powerful economic force in southwest Michigan, the Midwest and beyond. The Center, spurred on by a $1.5 million gift from Merlin and Carolyn Hanson, will reflect the new future of manufacturing, attracting new people – men and women – to the industry, providing a steady stream of qualified, ready to work employees that are critical to the success of every manufacturing enterprise. The Hanson Technology Center will be an education and training center, a magnet for a new generation of skilled workers. With its modernistic design, open, flexible classrooms and labs, the Center and its programs will retool students’ minds to the opportunities available to them in manufacturing. The Center will:
• Encourage more current and prospective students to explore the opportunities and potential of careers in manufacturing and energy. • Support the development and delivery of high-quality education and training programs for manufacturing, ranging from entry-level skills to more advanced programs that reflect industry needs. • Provide for expansion and creation of new programs that respond to the current and anticipated needs of business. We are pleased to share with you this important project and invite you to join the College in making this exciting new Center a reality. Your support will help attract more of our region’s best and brightest to the critical manufacturing industry, ensuring a vibrant future for Michigan’s Great Southwest.
“What I value in the College’s proposal to build this Center, is that they have taken a fresh approach to how they will deliver programs, reach out to prospective students and, most importantly, how they will work with the whole student to help them succeed. “ Rick Blake, President Edgewater Automation LLC
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Manufacturing – our region’s economic cornerstone. The Hanson Technology Center is more than a new building. It will support manufacturing as the economic cornerstone of this region – a cornerstone that, according to the Economic Policy Institute, “for each job manufacturing creates, three other jobs are created in the wider economy.”
“Lake Michigan College will be the community resource for manufacturing education and skills training with this Center.” Matt Tyler, President/CEO Vickers Engineering, Inc.
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Insights about Project’s Measurable Goals Business and Industry representatives and College faculty and staff have developed value-driven, clear measurable goals the design must achieve and on which project success will be measured. They are:
What are Our Project’s Measurable Goals?
• Express the spirit of an
innovative & transformational
manufacturing program to students & the public. • Support
multidisciplinary growth, developing a ‘whole’ student and
exposing to new possibilities. • Create the
flexibility to quickly respond to changing and emerging needs in the
manufacturer community. • Become an economic game changer for the region by
campus & community.
• Develop a
engaging the
visually accessible concept that stimulates investigation and
supports a program able to attract, retain, and teach students about manufacturing.
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Why a new Technology Center on the College’s Napier Campus? • Locating the Hanson Technology Center on the Napier is good for the College, its students; and for business. For Students and the College: • Enrollment in manufacturing programs will increase as virtually all LMC students will be exposed to the College’s manufacturing programs, versus 10% who are exposed to M-TEC today. • Student degree and certificate completers will increase as manufacturing students can easily enroll in classes leading to more efficient building of schedules. • Improved student access to student support services, including advising and financial aid, will lead to increased student success.
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“This Center is something that as a community, we have needed for a generation and we are excited about the possibilities of growing this localized specialty here in Southwest Michigan. “ Al Bass, Business Unit Manager Dane Systems, LLC
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For Business: Increased enrollments in manufacturing programs will provide more skilled employees for the region’s manufacturers. • Blending programs in the arts, innovation, fabrication and manufacturing will improve instruction and training, inspiring students to explore careers in manufacturing that they may not have otherwise imagined. • A larger instructional center will allow for the introduction of new programs in Mechatronics and Robotics, as well as an expanded Fab Lab program, and more. • Students will be better prepared with “soft skill” instruction and more crossdisciplinary interaction among faculty and students. • With larger labs and upgraded classrooms the Hanson Technology Center will be designed with the diverse training needs of business in mind – ranging from basic skill sets to more advanced training in areas such as Engineering Technology.
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• Functional, flexible learning space in the Hanson Technology Center will ensure that education and training needs of the manufacturing community will be met for generations to come.
“This new Center will be a major signal that the College stands side-by-side with business to create a strong and vibrant manufacturing economy in our region and will lay a vital role in attracting and retaining people.”
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Dan Mitchell, President Hanson Mold
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Building Student interest in Manufacturing To attract new students into manufacturing programs, the College will partner with schools and the community-at-large to encourage students to explore the opportunities in manufacturing. The will be designed so that it is visually accessible, helping students see first-hand how the manufacturing and energy industries really look and work. The open classroom and lab design will allow prospective students to see current students and faculty at work. By locating the Hanson Technology Center on the Napier Campus, adopting new education and training delivery strategies, and creating new programs, the College
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expects to increase enrollment in technical programs by up to 10% within two years.
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What is the future of manufacturing? Business and Industry leaders provided responses during the design charrette to the question, “what is the future of manufacturing?� Responses provided insight into both future employee and project expectations. This feedback was used to develop the project goals and design.
Flexibility to Serve Students and Business
Align What is the future of manufacturing?
The College will focus on flexibility to meet the needs of area manufacturing. Temporarily displaced workers may not be able to attend classes through a traditional fall-winter-spring-summer class structure. To respond to this, rolling admissions and modular based instruction will provide students with educational opportunities on a time frame that works for them. Classes through the Tooling University will offer online instruction in lieu of traditional lectures. This curriculum was developed by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers to include online simulations. Students can complete coursework through Hanson Technology Center labs after finishing online portions.
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Innovation at Work The Hanson Technology Center is a facility designed to infuse creativity in students and the community. Thinking innovative and creatively is a problem solving skill that can be taught. Innovation education, delivered through the Fab Lab, will allow groups to follow projects from idea through prototype—focusing on teamwork, critical thinking, project management, and problem solving. The programs will be available to students, businesses, and the community. The College will develop
Manufacturing drives innovation. With innovation come new opportunities, new growth, and a stronger local economy.
a curriculum that will be applicable across a wide range of disciplines. Upon project completion, prototypes can be displayed in a common space for community viewing.
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Insights about Programming How the Hanson Technology Center is perceived is a factor in addressing the diverse ways in which people experience and learn at LMC today. Making the space more lively and efficient, the learning environment is designed to support students and faculty, in order to foster collaboration and enhance the student environment. That means increased focus on perceptions of space, multidisciplinary use, and openness. Hanson Technology Center Programs In recent years the College’s manufacturing programs have undergone an extensive and critical self-analysis. Based on observations from faculty and staff as well as
Programming...
feedback from leaders in the region’s manufacturing businesses, the College is developing programs that focus on employer needs and student success. Based on this input the Hanson Technology Center will include traditional offerings in areas that provide basic and foundational skills for students, however, the programs will be delivered in settings that encourage faculty to student and student to student interaction. New programs will reflect the employment needs within a continually changing manufacturing environment. The College will continue its commitment to instruction in:
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• Apprenticeship Programs
• Industrial Maintenance
• Energy Production Technology
• Machine Tool/CNC
-General Energy Production
-Health Physics/Radiation
-Rigging
Protection
• Electronics
-CNC
• Welding
• CAD/CAM
-Pneumatics
-Hydraulics
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New and expanded programs include: • Robotics: The College will expand from two to six robots and offer certificate programs in Robotics programming and Robotics maintenance. • Engineering Tech: This program will be expanded to offer a Baccalaureate degree in applied Engineering through University partnerships on the College’s campus. Concentrations will include Controls and Mechanical Engineering. • Prototype and Design Technology: Students will build 3-D prototypes for use in manufacturing, consumer products, and other fields of product development. • Creative Welding: Capitalizing on a growing medium in the arts world, the College will offer classes in welding as an artistic expression. • Innovations and Fabrications: The College will offer credit and non-credit
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programs to students and the community at large—providing opportunities to problem solve, design, and prototype. • Mechatronics: Combining mechanics, electronics, informatics, automation, and robotics, the College will offer training in one of the most dynamically developing fields of technology and science. • Energy Baccalaureate: The College will offer a Bachelor of Applied Science in Energy Production and Distribution Management. Students will learn the technical skills to be successful in energy plant operations plus the business and management skills to supervise workers in careers related to energy production and power management.
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Hanson Technology Center Programming Overview
Advanced Manufacturing 31, 842 gsf
Multidisciplinary Space 9, 715 gsf
Program Support 4,234 gsf
Building Area 45, 791 gsf
Efficiency Ratio
45%
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Lake Michigan College There are three Centers of Excellence that the campaign will contribute to:
The Hanson Technology Center is a College and Community Investment To make the dream of the Hanson Technology Center a reality, the College will invest its own resources, sell M-TEC and seek the support of the region’s business community. We
Student Success $2,500,000
seek support from those who understand the value that manufacturing and energy bring
Modernize 50 classrooms and 3 lecture halls in the Napier Campus
$1,250,000
to our region.
Renovate the South Haven Campus Science labs
$ 250,000
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Expand student assessment, tutoring space at the
The construction of the Hanson Technology Center is the centerpiece project of a larger
Bertrand and South Haven campuses
$ 500,000
Create outdoor student recreation space at the Napier Campus
$ 500,000
$7.5 million campaign to transform Lake Michigan College to meet the future needs of the region. We are working to ensure that our businesses and organizations have the talent and intellectual capital that truly makes our region Michigan’s Great Southwest. With the region’s help we can create a college that excels as a center for learning that
Jobs $4,000,000
will further the positive economic, social and cultural evolution of Southwest Michigan.
Hanson Technology Center
$3,000,000
Viticulture and Enology Center
$1,000,000
The campaign builds on the $20 million the College has already leveraged to improve facilities and enhance the College learning experience for thousands of students. Community Building Facility and program projects underway or completed include:
$1,000,000
Modernize Mendel Center Lobby and Upton Hall
$1,000,000
• Construction of a new Residence Hall to attract and retain more students Project cost $7,500,000
• New nursing labs and added programs in medical imaging • Transformation of 40 year old science labs to state-of-the labs and classrooms that even use 3-D • Created a new student activity center – the Hawks Nest • Starting a – first of its kind in the state -- Baccalaureate Program in Energy Production Technology • Adopted programs to help our most at-risk students succeed in the Classroom • Built the Largest Early College program in Michigan…students now graduating from College before they graduate from high school
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Campaign for Tomorrow Campaign Cabinet Ms. Joan Smith, Chair Mr. David Whitwam, Honorary Chair Major Gifts Co-Chairs Mr. Jeff Curry Mr. Mike Welch
Business Gifts Co-Chairs Mr. Rick Blake Mr. Matt Tyler
Communications Chair Mr. Jim Marohn
Community Gifts Chair Ms. Carol Sizer
Family Gifts Co-Chairs Mr. Jim Larson Mr. Doug Schaffer
Members-At-Large Dr. Robert Harrison Dr. Michael Lindley
Campaign Advisors Mr. Merlin Hanson Mr. Greg O’Niel
Lake Michigan College Foundation Board of Directors Mr. Jeff Curry Foundation Board President United Federal Credit Union Mr. Jim Marohn Foundation Vice President Doubleday Office Products, Inc. Mr. Rick Blake Edgewater Automation Mr. Robert Burch Chemical Bank Ms. Nancy Butler Coldwell Banker RE Specialists
Hon. Alfred (Al) M. Butzbaugh Retired, Berrien County
Mr. Scott Geik 1st Source Bank
Mr. John Janick PNC Bank
Mr. Scott McFarland Honor Credit Union
Mr. David Schaffer Schaffer & Layher
Mr. Michael Carlson American Electric Power
Dr. Steven Hadaway Perfect Pet Products, LLC
Mr. Mike Knytych Kmc Enterprises
Mr. Greg O’Niel Retired Businessman
Mr. Doug Schaffer Lake Michigan College
Ms. Kristi Clark LMC Alumni Association Board of Directors
Ms. Kelli Hahn Lake Michigan College
Mr. Ken Kozminski The Buck Burgers and Brew
Mr. Tim Passaro Passaro & Kahne Law Office
Ms. Joan Smith Smith Dahmer & Associates
Dr. Robert Harrison Lake Michigan College
Mr. James (Jim) Krzyzewski Nyloncraft, Inc.
Ms. Mary Ann Pater Lakeland HealthCare
Ms. Mary Jo Tomasini Competitive Edge
Ms. Patsy Hartzell Berrien County Friend of the Court
Dr. Michael Lindley Niles Community Schools
Mr. Randy Reimers Fifth Third Bank
Ms. Judy Truesdell Cupcaketree.com
Mr. Brian Maynard Whirlpool Corporation
Mr. Peter W. Rossow Ernst & Young
Mr. Mike Welch Magnate Capital, LLC
Ms. Gloria Ender Freedom Finishing Mr. Craig Erikson Michigan Pizza Hut, Inc.
Staff Ms. Mary Klemm, Interim Executive Director Lake Michigan College Foundation (269) 927-6849 klemm@lakemichigancollege.edu
Mr. Christopher Moffat, Director Major Gifts and Estate Planning (269) 927-8752 cmoffat@lakemichigancollege.edu
www.lakemichigancollege.edu Napier Avenue Campus 2755 E. Napier Avenue Benton Harbor, MI 49022 (269) 927-1000
Bertrand Crossing Campus 1905 Foundation Drive Niles, MI 49120 (269) 695-1391
South Haven Campus 125 Veterans Boulevard South Haven, MI 49090 (269) 637-7500
LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Dr. David Maysick, Chair • Mr. Paul Bergan, Vice-chair • Ms. Mary Jo Tomasini, Secretary • Dr. Michael Lindley, Treasurer Mr. Stephen Small, Trustee • Ms. Judy Truesdell, Trustee • Ms. Debra Johnson, Trustee Dr. Robert Harrison, President
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