Hinds Community College opens hi-tech training center at MCITy - The Vicksburg Post - Vicksburg Post

Hinds Community College celebrated the ribbon cutting for its caller Emerging Technologies Training Center astatine the Mississippi Center for Innovation and Technology (MCITy) successful Vicksburg connected Wednesday. The caller installation volition supply workforce grooming utilizing recently disposable technologies. (Photo by James Dixon | VTV Network)

Hinds Community College held the ribbon-cutting ceremonial for its caller Emerging Technologies Training Center connected Wednesday astatine the Mississippi Center for Innovation and Technology (MCITy) successful downtown Vicksburg connected Wednesday.

The task is intended to assistance the assemblage make job-related exertion capitalizing connected the section beingness of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the USACE Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), arsenic good arsenic different partners. The halfway volition supply grooming and method enactment for students, tiny and emerging businesses and existing industries.

Several assemblage leaders and schoolhouse officials spoke astatine the event, including Associate Vice President of Workforce Development for Hinds Community College, David Creel.

“What we wanted to bash with this halfway was not to duplicate what we’re doing connected field conscionable 5 miles down the road,” Creel said. “We wanted it to beryllium special. We wanted it to beryllium additional; we wanted it to beryllium thing innovative.”

The halfway volition see a virtual reality/augmented world lab, a workforce/multipurpose laboratory and an Industry 4.0 lab, which is simply a strategy designed for grooming workers successful manufacturing processes done simulation.

Kelle Barfield, President of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, besides spoke astatine the event, saying she is blessed to spot much grooming for workers being made disposable successful the community.

“I’ve worked for Entergy for immoderate 33 years. And I tin archer you, we would enactment with economical development,” Barfield said. “Fundamentally, the precise archetypal question wasn’t ‘Do you person the land?’ oregon ‘How overmuch is the energy going to outgo us?’ It was ‘Do you person a qualified workforce?’”

Ryan Miller is the Executive Director of Accelerate MS, the state’s workforce improvement programme established successful 2020. He said helium was besides enthusiastic astir the opportunities the caller installation volition bring to the section workforce.

“When you instrumentality the circuit — and I’ve had the accidental to spot immoderate of the exertion successful these rooms — you’re going to recognize wherefore truthful galore radical volition beryllium excited to find their mode into this hall, into these offices and into these simulators,” helium said. “It’s going to unfastened a doorway for them that they’ve ne'er seen before.”

After the ceremony, attendees were divided into groups and fixed a circuit of the caller facility.

In 1 room, a objection of a question seizure strategy was connected display. The strategy allowed the movements of an idiosyncratic wearing a peculiar suit to beryllium straight translated into animations for a 3D exemplary of a idiosyncratic displayed connected a monitor. Another country was acceptable up with virtual world headsets utilized for visualizing designs utilized successful manufacturing.

Workforce grooming astatine the installation is expected to statesman soon. For much information, interaction Hinds Community College astatine hindscc.edu oregon telephone 1-800-446-3722.