
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 28, 1991                   TAG: 9102280199
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-7   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Short

COLLEGE GETS TECHNICAL-PROJECT GRANT

New River Community College has received a $2,040 grant to develop its technical curriculum.

The grant is from the Virginia Community College System and will be used for a project known as "Integration of Automated Process Control in Technical Education."

Through this activity, instructors will develop materials for several different classes dealing with the automation of manufacturing processes. The materials will allow students to see the begin-to-end stages of a manufacturing process.

Last year, Autodesk Inc. and Fischer America selected the college as a test site for the exploration and instruction of the their graphics and modeling technologies, respectively. Available funding helped to combine these programs.

Integrated with the computer graphics software program and a physical modeling system, New River Community College now is closer to being able to provide a complete visualization of the total design cycle in manufacturing operations.

Call 674-3600 for information about this and other programs.

by CNB