(Rochester,
NY) The MCC Engineering Technologies Department maintains an Electronic Learning Center which is located
in Building #9. The center located in room 9-119 of the
Technologies Building on the Brighton campus is used
by the students in the Dept's. Construction, Electrical, Mechanical,
and Optical Technology programs. Workers in the ELC are student aides employed by the college and supervise the lab during open hours.
The room contains computer workstations, an electronics workbench
and a study area. Its a place where students can meet to work out problems,
sharpen computer skills, or work on laboratory assignments. The room will
be monitored by a student-aide employed by the department during open hours.
The lab is usually open about 30-40 hours-per-week, but according to
ET Dept. Chair William Yanklowski, the hours will be expanded to include some night hours if staffing
can be worked out. "It just gives our students one more place to go,
and develop skills, using software and equipment which are used in their
normal laboratory assignments, something the other college learning centers
don't currently offer" said Yanklowski.
The
department that Yanklowski chairs is one of the more diverse
on campus, with programs that offer students classes
in everything from optics, to construction technology,
from electronics or instrumentation, to both mechanical
and manufacturing technology, not to mention photography
courses as well. "Ours is a unique situation
and so we have tried to include a little something
to benefit almost everyone enrolled in our classes." added
Yanklowski.
