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About Us!The Tennessee Technology Center (TTC) Division is a unit of Chattanooga State Technical Community College, a Tennessee Board of Regents Institution. The school was founded in 1969 as the Chattanooga Area Vocational Technical School. On July 1, 1981 the AVTS was merged with Chattanooga State Community College to become Chattanooga State Technical Community College. In 1996 the Tennessee Board of Regents renamed the AVTS to the Tennessee Technology Center in keeping with their updated role as the leading edge technical/adult education/vocational training centers in the state of Tennessee. |
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The Tennessee Technology Center Division houses the college's 21 one-year programs with a total of 37 faculty and staff, making it one of the larger divisions on the campus of Chattanooga State. The faculty members are dedicated full-time to teaching and advising students. They are well prepared to teach, with many having work experience in business and industry. Chattanooga State's beautiful 90-acre campus is located on Amnicola Highway adjacent to the Chattanooga River Park. A new pedestrian boulevard and amphitheater adorn the spacious landscape. The Tennessee Technology Center Division of Chattanooga State serves more than
1,000 students. Most of these students live in the Tennessee counties of Hamilton, Rhea,
Sequatchie, Bledsoe, Marion, and Grundy or in nearby north Georgia and Alabama. During the 1998 spring semester, the Medical Assisting program was accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), on recommendation of the curriculum review board of the American Association of Medical Assistants' Endowment (AAMA). Graduates are eligible to sit for the AAMA Certification Examination. In the fall of 1998, a new addition was added to Chattanooga State's West campus in Kimball, TN. to house classrooms and laboratory facilities for a section of the air conditioning and refrigeration program. Classes are taught Monday through Friday in the evenings, 4:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. This makes two programs available at the West campus. The other program, Cosmetology, was established in 1994. In the spring of 2000, a new section of Machine Tool Technology was added in the Sequatchie Valley . Basic machine tool technology classes will be offered at the Sequatchie/Bledsoe Center during the day. Upon completion of the program the student will have the opportunity to travel to the main campus to take the CNC option of the program or will be ready for immediate placement in the job field. Chattanooga State Technical Community College, in a partnership with Cleveland State Community College, began offering commercial truck driving classes on the Cleveland State campus in the fall semester of 2002. The program is designed to meet the needs of the trucking industry in the Chattanooga and Cleveland areas and was a result of the "Defining Our Future" initiative enacted by the Tennessee General Assembly. |
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In January 2004, the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, Refrigeration (HVACR) program at Tennessee Technology Center (TTC), Chattanooga was granted national accreditation. HVAC Excellence, a not for profit organization, establishes national standards for HVACR programs. HVAC Excellence’s Executive Committee granted the Tennessee Technology Center, Chattanooga a six (6) year accreditation of its HVACR program. HVAC Excellence, granted the accreditation after conducting an intense onsite evaluation of the New Iberia program. The program was reviewed in the following areas: Curriculum, Faculty, Student facilities, Placement services, Financial aid, Training facilities, Equipment & Safety. It was determined that the program has met standards set forth by HVAC Excellence which are based, in part, on the National Skill Standards.
The Industrial
Electricity program in 2005 became the first community college program in the
nation to be granted accreditation from the National Center for
Construction Education and Research (NCCER). Additionally,
the program instructors, Mr. Hugh Vines and Mr. Richard Claburn,
received accreditation from the NCCER agency. The Building Construction Technology program also requires 1,290 hours and will focus on four main areas of the construction trade - carpentry, plumbing, electricity and masonry - and is designed to help meet the need for skilled workers in the construction industry. In addition, diploma programs in masonry and plumbing are available as well. The classes are held at Sequoyah High School in Soddy Daisy and meet Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings (15 hours a week). The Motorsports Vehicle Technology program is offered to persons who are interested in the motorsports field. This 450 hour certificate program will cover four main areas- basic engine performance, precision machining, chassis welding and advanced engine performance. Classes will meet two evenings a week and will require four semesters to complete. Three new programs were added in the fall of 2007. A 1,290 clock hour diploma program in Massage Therapy and certificate programs in Aesthetics (780 hours) and Nail Technician/Manicurist (780 hours). In the summer of 2008, Chattanooga State opened a new site at the Eastgate Town Center in Brainerd. The cosmetology program, massage therapy program and the Aesthetics and Manicurist programs were moved from the main campus to the Eastgate site, where they have more space and new salon facilities. |