BTC's AMT program honored with award
WAUKESHA — Blackhawk Technical College's Aviation Maintenance Technician Program was recognized for its contributions to the aerospace field when it received the Frank G. Brewer-Civil Air Patrol Memorial Aerospace Award during the Civil Air Patrol's annual conference in Waukesha on Saturday.
The award was given by the Wisconsin Wing and the Great Lakes Region of the Civil Air Patrol and accepted by Patrick Ripp, one of three instructors for the BTC program.
The Janesville college's AMT program is being considered for a national award given by the Civil Air Patrol's National Aerospace Education Review Committee, which includes members of the Brewer family.
The Brewer Award is presented by the Civil Air Patrol in commemoration of Frank G. Brewer Sr., and his lifelong interest in aviation, youth and education to individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to the aerospace field.
BTC's AMT program has been in operation for more than 70 years and has been certified by the Federal Aviation Administration since 1949.
Ripp, Rick Theis, and Mario Flores are the program instructors.
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May 1, 2012 at 5:18 p.m.
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Lar,
No it did not. It's all about the money. Maybe if they got rid of some of the less quality programs and focused more on the quality programs the aviation program would still be active.
The half of the success of the program is the quality of educator. For example,in the late 80s I was enrolled in a program that was eventually cut for low enrollment; we had to core instructors (most of the programs do)one instructor was AWFUL and my grades reflected it; the other was Awesome and my grades reflected that as well. The awesome instructor, hired a day later than the awful instructor was laid off. The quality of education I received dropped dramatically.
May 1, 2012 at 4:43 a.m.
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chelleandlou:
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The Aviation program at BTC has been suspended. This paper even reported on the fact.
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The program suspention was obviously not related to quality eh? The program and it's instructors are top shelf.
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May 1, 2012 at 1:07 a.m.
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I thought the program had been suspended due to low enrollment.
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