Micro-Credentials
Micro-credentials are an aggregate of courses built around a competency that that can be taken as a standalone program or stacked to earn an academic degree or certificate. Micro-credentials are designed to provide specific workforce-ready skills in an accelerated timeframe. The micro-credential career pathway is a program for new students, professionals, military, and others seeking to up-skill their career paths.
Micro-credential Benefits
- Provide short-term, immediate competency skills.
- Demonstrate to employers about specific skills and competencies learned.
- Supplement an existing degree program with complementary skill sets.
- Ladder from a stand-alone micro-credential to an academic degree (associate or bachelor's).
Micro-credential Program: The micro-credential program leverages the existing proven technical programs at Northwestern Michigan College and is focused on the marine, engineering, geospatial, survey and unmanned systems technologies. Outlined below are the seven micro-credentials being offered and their respective competencies and courses.
Micro-Credential |
Competency |
Courses |
|---|---|---|
|
Electrical Systems & Troubleshooting |
Electronics |
Electrical studies I |
|
Microcontroller Applications |
Programing |
Microcontroller programming |
|
PLC Applications |
Programmable logic controllers (PLC's) |
Industrial Controls |
|
Machining Fundamentals |
Fundamentals of machining operations |
Print Reading and Sketching |
|
Industrial Maintenance |
Electronics, fluid power and PLC's |
Electrical Studies I |
|
Marine Data Processing |
Remote Sensing, Sonar Systems & Data Processing |
Remote Sensing and Sensors |
|
Marine Geospatial Data Management |
Data processing and management in the marine environment |
Geographic Information Systems (GIS). |
|
ROV Systems & Troubleshooting |
Marine Technology Systems |
Great Lakes Research Technologies |
|
Advanced Marine Platforms |
Marine Technology Systems |
Great Lakes Research Technologies |
|
UAS Technician |
Unmanned Aerial Systems |
Remote Pilot Flight |
|
Survey Fundamentals |
Survey fundamentals and applications |
Fundamentals of Surveying |