KINGMAN — Mohave College will open a new learning facility at the Kingman Airport and Industrial Park when the fall semester begins on August 18. The Advanced Manufacturing Training Center (AMTC) is located on Windrose Lane, next to the Shelves West building.
The 36,000 square-foot facility features a design lab, Simulated (SIM) and Virtual Reality (VR) lab, and a Business Incubator/Maker Space which will help prepare students for the workplace. The AMTC will help meet local workforce needs and prepare students for high demand, high skills jobs.
“The whole goal of it is to partner with business and industry to help increase workforce development,” said Communications director James Jarman.
The AMTC will offer credit, non-credit and apprenticeship programs in areas such as Workforce Readiness, Welding, Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC), Robotics, Hydraulics/Pneumatics, Mechanical Systems, Electrical Systems and Manufacturing Fundamentals.
Key industry partners include NUCOR Steel, Air Control HVAC, Phoenix Truck Driving, Progressive Pipe Fabricators, Arizona Sommers Heating and Cooling, and the Kingman and Mohave Manufacturing Association (KAMMA).
Additional partners include Governor Katie Hobbs and the State of Arizona, Arizona Commerce Authority, City of Kingman, Mohave County, ARIZONA@WORK and WAVE-JTED.
Jarman said Governor Hobbs plans to attend a ribbon cutting event scheduled on September 24.
“Invitations will be going out,” Jarman said. “They’re still hammering out the details.”
