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avionics systems and what is coming up soon.
only the knowledge and practical skill sets that today' s
" I also have more than 1 00 companies working as
employers want, but to complement those with the
advisors to our program," she said. " This has assisted
professional and intrapersonal skills that will make their
me when looking for trends and what the industry finds
respective graduates valued additions to any shop.
lacking in the employee pool."
Of course, they both lamented the fact that try as they
K SU -Salina obviously is not alone in its efforts to
might to stay up with trends, there are j ust some areas
provide avionics shops with skilled technicians. Chris
of today' s rapidly changing avionics industry that their
Bycroft, senior avionics instructor at the Spartan College
curriculums cannot keep pace.
of Aeronautics and Technology, said
AEA members:
the school' s program is geared from
day one to meet that goal.
You have a friend in
...AS AN AIRCRAFT
the training business
" Our program is continually
ELECTRONICS
Not to sound too much like a
evolving to meet industry needs
ASSOCIATION
commercial, but as an Aircraft
and make sure we are graduating
MEMBER, YOU HAVE
Electronics Association member,
students who are ready to start work
ACCESS
TO
A
VARIETY
you have access to a variety of
immediately," he said. " That' s our
OF COMPLEMENTARY
No. 1 priority."
complementary training assets - all
TRAINING ASSETS -
To help meet that goal, Bycroft
brought to you at reasonable or, even
ex plained that the Spartan avionics
better, no cost.
ALL BROUGHT
" There are a variety of things we
program currently has nine technical
TO YOU AT
offer from online programs, to our
classes; five are core electronics
REASONABLE OR,
classroom training programs here at
and four are systems focused.
EVEN BETTER,
headq uarters, to the refreshers available
They work to split each student' s
at our regional meetings and annual
ex perience between 5 0 percent
NO COST.
convention," said M ike Adamson, AEA
theory and 5 0 percent hands-on
ex perience.
vice president of member programs and
education. " W e' re trying to provide
In addition, Bycroft said that to
programs that can help fill the gaps and help shops with
help ensure Spartan' s programs are in-tune with industry
new hires or provide recurrent training for technicians
needs, each program at the school has a program
who need help with the latest technologies. Our goal is
advisory committee that meets twice a year.
to provide training programs that bridge the gap between
" The committee members tour classes, talk with
students and provide advice if a program needs to
what the schools can offer and what the shops need for
improve or change in order to meet the needs of the
their new hires and current technicians."
industry," he said. " One recent ex ample is an ex pansion
Adamson stressed that, j ust like the avionics industry,
of our surface-mount soldering ex ercise and lab. W e
the AEA' s catalog of training and informational
are purchasing new eq uipment and adding time to the
programs are constantly evolving to meet changing
ex isting lab ex ercises on the committee' s advice."
needs.
H e also ex plained that the school has recently
" W hen we started 1 2 years ago, our classes covered
ex panded its line maintenance and installation programs
specific information that a bench-level technician would
to better prepare students for the real world.
find valuable," he said. " As the industry changed to
" W e originally implemented an installation proj ect
more of an installation service, we partnered with our
to wire up an audio panel and nav/ comm unit," Bycroft
OEM members and built training that was concentrated
ex plained. " This proj ect has now ex panded over three
around specific installation skills, such as basic wiring,
classes to include some metal cutting, a new eq uipment
and have grown from there.
upgrade ex ercise, and the addition of transponder and
" If you took that class five years ago and did it again
encoder installations."
today, you would see it has changed a lot - you would
Both Bycroft and Alex ander said the bottom line for
all of their respective training programs is to instill not
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