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Project Products

Framework for Bridge Program Development

Intensive GED Prep Program Framework

VESL - Vocational English as a Second Language Courses A & B Curriculum Guide

Accelerated Computer-based GED Instructor's Guide

PreBridge: Foundation Skills for the Technical Learning Skills Bridge Curriculum Guide

Mathematics For Manufacturing
(**revised 10/3/00) This workbook, written by Stacey Toscas and Ray Prendergast, is designed to provide a functional context for math instruction in the Bridge program. The worksheets should be most helpful to math teachers who are not fluent with manufacturing processes. Teachers can use these worksheets as a basis for developing additional practical math exercises that relate to industry practices.

Mathematics For Manufacturing Pre- and Post- Tests
(**revised 10/3/00) The pre-test will give both math and shop teachers a rough baseline of the student's ability to do practical shop math and to read simple prints. The post-test will gage the students' progress in shop math and blueprint reading. Note that this test is similar to screening exams given by some employers.

Advanced Technology Bridge Training Implementation Guide
(**new 6/1/00) This implementation guide walks you through step-by-step how to put together a Bridge program similar to the programs in Chicago and Detroit.

Research

Beyond Welfare-to-Work: Bridging the Low-Wage - Livable-Wage Employment Gap - Davis Jenkins, UIC Great Cities Institute, January 1999

 

Evaluation

The Academy for Educational Development of Washington, D.C. completed an external evaluation of the Chicago Manufacturing Bridge Program in February 2000:

Bridge to Advanced Technological Education Project: External Evaluation of the Chicago Manufacturing Technology Bridge Program 1997-1999
External Evaluation of the Chicago Manufacturing Technology Bridge Program (Appendix)

(New! January 2001) The Academy for Educational Development of Washington, D.C. also completed an employment outcomes study for the Chicago Manufacturing Bridge Program in January 2001:

Employment Outcomes of Chicago Manufacturing Technology Bridge Graduates

Other Bridge Programs

IAMS Manufacturing Pre-Employment Training Program, Cincinnati, OH

Labor Force Access Development Initiative, Seattle, WA

Machinist Training Center, Warren, MI

Steptronics, Portland, OR

Transformations, Laconia, NH

Bank Tellers and Beyond, Chicago, IL

Finance and Insurance Partnership, Madison, WI

Programmer/Analyst Trainee Training Program, Madison, WI

Advanced Technology Program, Oakland Community College, MI

Resident Apprenticeship Demonstration Program of the America Works Partnership

Links

Henry Ford Community College Office of Corporate Training

National Science Foundation

Wayne State University:

Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Department of Engineering Technology

School of Engineering

South Carolina Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence

National Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing