Let an Amatrol representative show you how our learning systems using simulators and interactive multimedia can provide the hands-on training that the public power industry needs.  In addition to our hands-on training systems, view a demo of our eLearning that can be accessed online 24/7 at work or at home to meet your busy training schedule.

Our training systems have a proven track record for success and we look forward to helping you solve your training needs!

Learn more about the APPA Public Power Expo.

The Aspen Prize recognizes, “institutions for outstanding achievement in four areas: student learning outcomes, degree completion, labor market success in securing good jobs after college, and facilitating minority and low-income student success.”

The Aspen Institute reviewed 1200 community colleges and invited 100 of them to apply for the award. Following several on-site visits throughout the country, The Aspen Institute selected WWCC as a co-winner of this prestigious award and cited Walla Walla’s Energy Systems Technology program, which prominently utilizes Amatrol equipment and curriculum, as a prime example of what the Institute looks for in a successful program. WWCC’s program features three main clusters: wind turbine, electrical, and HVAC. WWCC electrical/energy systems technology instructor, Brian Evensen, discussed the success of the program on Aspen’s televised event:

“We’ve invested heavily in… Amatrol motor control equipment and mechanical drives trainers, and this is all paramount equipment. It’s a necessity. You can’t train a hands-on workforce with a textbook. You have to put their hands on the equipment. We treat it very much like a job.”

Amatrol products utilized by WWCC include the Motor Control series (85-MT5), Industrial Mechanical Trainer series, including Mechanical Drives (950-ME), Rigging (950-RG), Utility Scale Wind Power trainers (950-TEH, TGC, & TNC), Electrical Systems (T7017), and Basic Hydraulics (85-BH).

Evensen continued, “What our students are earning fresh out of college is typically $42 to $48 thousand dollars a year and we have about an 85% placement rating when you take into account all clusters.”

Let an Amatrol representative show you how our learning systems using simulators and interactive multimedia can provide the hands-on training that the steel industry needs.  In addition to our hands-on training systems, view a demo of our elearning that can be accessed online 24/7 at work or at home to meet your busy training schedule.

Our training systems have a proven track record for success and we look forward to helping you solve your training needs!

Learn more about AIST’s Technology Conference.

As the world’s leader in skills-based, interactive technical learning, Amatrol is proud to announce that we will be exhibiting a sample of our portable trainers and our mechatronics training systems.

We’re looking forward to visiting with you and showing you all of paths we’ve developed to lead learners down the road to a brighter future!

Learn more about ATEA’s National Conference.

Registration is open!

As the world’s leader in skills-based, interactive technical learning, Amatrol is proud to announce that we will be exhibiting some of our new, ground-breaking portable trainers.  We’ll also be displaying our very popular eLearning systems that include our eAssessment program.

Learn more about CareerTech Vision 2012.

Some of the equipment we’ll be displaying includes our new portable PLC Learning System featuring the Allen Bradley CompactLogix controller (990-PAB53) and our new portable AC/DC Electrical Learning System. The 990-PAB53 joins our 990-PS712F Portable PLC Learning System featuring the Siemens S7-1200 controller to provide training on programming, operation and troubleshooting for two of the most popular controllers.

We’re looking forward to visiting with you and showing you all of paths we’ve developed to lead learners down the road to a brighter future!

Student Reference Guides supplement the eLearning courses by providing a condensed, inexpensive reference tool that students will find invaluable once they finish their training.

Content from Entire eLearning Course in one Location

Sourced from our interactive eLearning courses, each Student Reference Guide takes an entire series’ learning objectives and combines them into one perfect-bound book.  Every page of these beautifully bound books contains the text and images directly from the eLearning modules.  Interactions, animations, and videos have been carefully replaced with images that show the key points of the topic being presented.

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If you would like to inquire about purchasing Student Reference Guides for your students, contact your local Amatrol Representative for more information.

Mark your calendar today for the best professional development event of the year, Nov. 17-19 in St. Louis. Registration is open!

As the world’s leader in skills-based, interactive technical learning, Amatrol is proud to announce that we’ll be exhibiting at the 2011 Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) show in St Louis on November 17th and 18th. If you’d like to stop by and see some of our learning systems—including some new, ground-breaking trainers—we’ll be in expo booths 602 and 603.

Learn more about the ACTE Conference.

Some of the equipment we’ll be displaying includes our Alternative Energy Learning System (850-AEC) and our new Portable PLC Learning System (990-PS712). The 850-AEC helps students accumulate the skills necessary to enter the burgeoning green energy industry, specifically the small wind and solar industries, while the 990-PS712 teaches programming, operation and troubleshooting of modern PLC systems that use HMI panels, networking, and a variety of basic and advanced program commands. We’ll also be displaying our very popular Electric Motor Control Learning System (85-MT5) with its matching Virtual Trainer. The 85-MT5 teaches students industry-relevant skills including how to operate, install, design, and troubleshoot AC electric motor control circuits for various applications.

In addition, we’ll have our eLearning system and Virtual Trainers set up so you can test your skills, go through a demo course, and see our new eAssessment program.

We’re looking forward to visiting with you and showing you all of paths we’ve developed to lead students down the road to a brighter future!

Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 12:22 AM EDT

Amatrol did its best in 2010 and expects to do still better this year despite the down economy.

The Jeffersonville company defies by redefining, ever eager to be relevant. It adds products and markets and accepts no excuses for not turning on a dime. While some 75 employees make things, the other 60 make plans.

“I spend a lot of my time asking, ‘Where are we going next?’” said Paul Perkins, the president.

Amatrol, which is near Port Road, has roots in engineering design, but 30 years ago Amatrol linked itself to education and has not looked back. It helps schools and businesses teach and train, selling them an ever-wider range of intricate ware, hard and soft.

Interest swells in alternative energy, so Amatrol also now provides goods and guidance for others to make more from wind and the sun. And as manufacturers increasingly go global, Amatrol increasingly goes global with dozens of far-flung clients.

“Our whole approach is to develop relationships with clients,” Perkins said. “Our No. 1 goal is to make them successful.”
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce named Amatrol the state’s small business of the year in 2010. Business First also saluted it last year. Being honored reflects the firm’s ability to change in stride with technology. “That’s what makes it fun, too,” Perkins said.

Perkins’ late parents, Don and Bobbi, started both the firm and its ability to be flexible. Paul’s sister, Suzanne Allen, is chief financial officer. Brother Todd is chief operating officer. Being private, Amatrol worries less about quick profit. Instead of knee-jerk changes, Amatrol makes thoughtful ones.

Rita Hudson Shourds, chancellor of the Ivy Tech Community College campus in Sellersburg, is impressed by “the foresight it has to spend time on what is to be in the future.” The college relies on Amatrol products plus Paul Perkins serves on its regional and state boards.

Bronson Ellis, energy training coordinator of the High Plains Technology Center in Oklahoma, said Amatrol helps him teach skills applicable to the real world. Ellis said Amatrol indeed sells what he most needs to buy. “They’re willing to look at anything,” Ellis said. “They listen. That’s how they stay ahead.”

Amatrol has mostly homegrown work force, testimony to the Louisville area’s brainpower. Once at Amatrol, people stay, on average, a decade or more. The staff grows because orders do, and Amatrol expects to add on to its building on Centennial Boulevard.

What is ahead for those workers is whatever must be. Amatrol is set in its ways about being flexible. “Our folks work on new stuff all the time,” Perkins said.

Dale Moss’ column appears on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Comment on this column, and read his blog and previous columns, at www.courier-journal.com/moss.

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Date: Friday, July 15, 2011, 3:00pm EDT – Last Modified: Friday, July 15, 2011, 3:43pm EDT

Louisville ranks 38th among U.S. metro areas in terms of its “green” jobs count, according to a study released this week by the Brookings Institution.

The Washington, D.C., institute tallied 14,447 green/clean jobs in the Louisville area — 2.4 percent of the region’s jobs. It defined such jobs as those in “the sector of the economy that produces goods and services with an environmental benefit,” listing sample clean economy employers as Amatrol Inc., General Electric Co., Graphic Packaging International, Summit Energy Services Inc., and Winston Industries Inc.

The area added 1,668 clean jobs between 2003 and 2010 for an annual growth calculation of 1.8 percent, the report said. Those jobs earn a median annual wage of $37,313, compared with $35,007 for all jobs in the metro.

See the full article here.

Download the full clean economy report here.

By JEROD CLAPP

JEFFERSONVILLE — After calibrating hydraulic systems and writing programs, the students watched robotic arms perform tasks to see if any adjustments were needed.

They weren’t college juniors or seniors — these students just finished the eighth grade.

Students from Southern Indiana area attending the Summer Robotics Camp sponsored by Amatrol in Jeffersonville, the Prosser School of Technology, Ivy Tech Community College and Purdue University. The camp gave students the opportunity to do what mechanical and software engineers might do on a daily basis.

Anthony Harper — instructor for the camp and laser engraving teacher at William W. Borden High School — said students participating in the camp were essentially taking an entry-level college engineering course.

“We don’t adapt the curriculum at all,” Harper said. “Some students catch on faster than others, but it’s all hands-on.”

Harper said students work at their own pace with machinery and lessons provided by Amatrol. He said their lessons focus on programming, assembly of the machines and creating circuits to make the machines work. Amatrol provides training for engineers in companies like Ford Motor Co. and others.

The camp costs students $40 for two weeks of instruction. It continues until Friday.

Sam Worth, a 14-year-old who is getting ready to start his high school years, said getting a chance to work with real machines instead of toys really drew him into the program.

“I just like the ability to work with and program robotics that aren’t homemade,” Worth said. “I’ve actually build robots with simple gear systems.”

He said though working with the machines is fun, he prefers to stay on the back end with programming. He said he’s had some experience with software that allows him to write his own programs before he attended the camp.

“I’m always afraid I’m going to break something, but on the computer, the worst I can do is create an error,” Worth said.

About 12 students attended the camp this year. Harper said he’s been the instructor for four years and loves seeing students work hard on putting together the projects.

“Once the kids get here the first day, they’re here up until the last day,” Harper said. “That’s the great thing about these kids, I don’t have to motivate them — they motivate themselves.”

He said many of the students he teaches in the camp push themselves to learn more. Students also work in collaboration with one other student to get everything in working order.

Worth said participating in the camp gave him a better idea of how he wants to model his high school career so he can plan his college path for software engineering.

He said instead of opting for electives that might allow him to relax a little, he plans on filling up on more math and science courses.

“It’s focused a lot on engineering, but I think it can do two things,” Harper said. “I think it can help them figure out if they want to be an engineer and what kind. I had one kid tell me he wants to be an electrical engineer and get a master’s in software.

“It can not only help them plan their college career, but their whole future.”

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