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Advisory Board

1. Membership consists of:

     - Journeyman Machinist

     - Journeyman Tool and Die Makers

     - Journeyman Moldmakers

     - Machine Shop Owners

     - Mechanical Engineers

     - Tool Sales Professional

     - Maintenance Machinist

2. Input:

     - recommend tasks necessary for student success in the workplace

     - Review project prints for accuracy and relevance

3. Activities:

     - Skills USA: Members help judge both practice and regional contests

     - Proffesional development activities: Members join in by allowing job shadowing and by attending Precision Machining Shows

     - E-Mail: Members help make class decisions over e-mail

     - Promotional: Members meet with students, guidance councelors, principals, and superintendents to stress the importance of a properly trained skilled workforce.

4. Involvement with program design, resource utilization, and program outcomes:

     - Help in deciding what new equipment is needed

     - Suggest new projects that could be used to train students

     - Help prepare students for Skills USA contests

     - Key players in getting donations of material, tools, and machinery

     - Assist in getting up-to-date tooling into the classroom

     - Inform the instructor of strengths and/or shortcomings graduates have once they are in the workforce.

     - Make suggestions towards improving the end results; what needs stressed the most