Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education

PROGRAM EVALUATION PROFILE

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PROGRAM EVALUATION SUMMARY

The Electrical Trades Technology program at Canadian Valley Technology Center, El Reno campus, is a single-instructor program offering from 1050 to 2100 clock hours of instruction in electrical knowledge and skill sused in a variety of related occupations. The program includes safety; use and maintenance of hand and power tools and equipment; direct current; alternating current; general wiring methos and practices; national and local electrical codes; bluprint reading adn layout; motors and generators; motor controls; programmable logic controllers; variable frequency drives; electrical distribution; residential, commercial, and industrial wiring; hydraulics; pneumatics; and customer service and employability skills. Career majors are offered in Residential Electrician's Assistant, Commercial Electrician's Assistant, Industrial Electrician's Assistant, Home Technology Integrator, Industrial Maintenance Electrician, Automated Manufacturing Technician, and Electrical Maintenance Technician Assistant. Instruction is open-entry, open-exit, competency-based, and self-paced, combined with instructor-centered lectures as appropriate. The program operates twn months per year.

The objective of the program is to prepare students for employment in one of the identified majors or for continued education. The students served include juniors and seniors from local high schools and half-time as well as full-time adult students. Current enrollment is 16 morning students (11 high school and five adults) and 16 afternoon students (10 high school students and six adults.) Fivei of the adult students attend full-time.

The program offers an exceptional number of identified career majors and is well equipped to extend students the opportunity to learn on industry-standard equipment using solid curriculum, including home technology integration. Appropriate instructional technology and reference resources are available, as are multimedia materials that help reinforce the curriculum.

The instructor is well qualified through credentials and experience to teach this program and has had the experience to be able to relate student projects to realistic industry settings. The students' writing adn research skills are developed through reports written on technical topics that become part of their portfolios. Related academics are reinforced through course conten, and student who need rememdiation ahve access to the Academic Center. Students may also participate in pull-out math and physics courses that are taught for high school credit by certified teachers on the campus.

The program appears to be well supported financially. There are an exceptional number of workstations of a wide variety, covering a broad range of construction and manufacturing occupations. The relocation to the new facilities offers much more room than before.

The recognition given to program supporters by the high-quality vinyl signs should be very encouraging to them and help to reinforce that their contributions and support for the program are appreciated.

SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT

While 2100 hours are available to students, the syllabus does not detail what students learn above the nominal 1050 hours. Work is needed on the syllabus to align with the courses presented in the state career clusters model for architecture and construction as well as manufacturing.

The instructor would benefit from having a professional day to visit similar programs at Metro Technology Center's South Bryant campus and Moore-Norman Technology Center to vist with other instructors to see how they have integrated the industrial curriculum.

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Additional general lighting is needed near the entry to the program and in the raised area outside the classroom. The lighting in these areas is presently very limited.

The entire lab needs to be painted to cover up areas left when equipment used by the previous program was moved and where openings have been sealed.

The gaskets on the overhead door have worn out or been removed and need to be replaced.

The new facilities offer serveral areas that, while useful for storage or instructional purposes, are not easily supervised for safety. These areas include the computer room and the adjacent storage room. Installing surveillance cameras in these areas would help to at least give students the impression that their actions might be observed and serve to discourage inappropriate behavior.

Software that allows the instructor to monitor the activities of the lab computers from his workstation, along with Internet access control software and a strong acceptable-use policy detailing consequences of inappropriate use, would server to keep student on task using only approved software and accessing trade-related sites.

The storage available is adequate but additional storage "solutions" in the form of containers that allow for efficiently organizing, storing, and clear displaying the many pieces of equipment necessary for student use should be considered.

The cleanup sink needs to be installed.

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Students would benefit from the CareerSafe online safety training. The injury and death statistics fro workers in teh 18-25 age range are asatonishing and many could be avoided by appropriate instruction.

Rubber mats are needed in front of workstations where students work and troubleshoot live circuits. These mats would insulate the students from the conductive concrete and help minimize the danger of electrical shock.

The safety test is fairly weak and needs to be expanded to include mroe safety topics. The test should include items on electrical safety, personal protective equipment, right-to-know, bloodborne pathogens, MSDS sheets, and emergency school procedures.

A gate of chain similar to thse already in use in other areas needs to be installed at the foot of the stairs leading to the overhead storage area to provide access to the instructor only.

Antibacterial wipes need to be available to sanitize shared personal protective equipment such as headphones, hard hats, and the full-face shield at the grinder. Where economically feasible, it is preferable to provide these items for individual studnets, but occasional disinfection and cleaning is still advisable.