Customized Training
Partnering with more than 100 area businesses and industries, DCTC offers customized continuing education in a number of areas. In a typical year, more than 6,000 students are enrolled in the college's Customized Training programs. Some noteworthy training projects include:
- Business and Management
- Northwest Airlines: $263,945 grant for supervisory management training
- Amerilab Technologies: $309,411 grant for multicultural supervisory training
- IT/Computer Technology
- Prometric Training Center: DCTC's IT Training Center delivers Microsoft exams for technology vendors such as Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems and CompTIA
- Manufacturing
- Foldcraft: $300,000 grant for operational excellence training in manufacturing along with other instruction
- Urologix: $189,000 grant for two-pronged competency training that included pilot and train-the-trainer programs
- Public Safety
- Trained and endorsed 1,200 motorcycle riders in 2007
- Trained 600 police officers in emergency vehicle operations, basic and advanced pursuit, and P.I.T. in 2007
- Trained 200 firefighters and emergency medical technicians in emergency response driving proficiency skills in 2007
- Transportation
- 151 out of 153 (98.6 percent) students passed Truck Driver Training program and earned Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
- Multimillion-dollar facility includes observation deck, three TDT exercise yards and an enclosed, three-mile (5 km) decision driving track
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