Housatonic Community College has been awarded a share of a $17.8 million grant, which it will use to create The HCC Regional Advanced Manufacturing Center for Southwestern Connecticut at the college, The Bridgeport News reports.
The center will expand the college’s manufacturing education capability to give students the 21st century knowledge and skills needed by today’s manufacturers. It will feature a manufacturing lab, an engineering/design studio, and a welding lab to be used to support the college’s credit and non-credit manufacturing courses.
Among the features of the manufacturing lab will be an Inspection/Metrology Center with precision measuring tools, a 20-station computer lab, Computer Numeric Control (CNC) machines, and Rapid Prototypers.
