Students completing the Certificate of Achievement in Computational Design develop the skills for many entry-level research and analytics positions, including, optimizing systems, production, manufacturing, sustainability, setting up and conducting experiments for research and development firms, and design analysis. Students will be competent in MATLab and Simulink software as well as applying both the sciences and art of computing to design problems. Completing the required coursework prepares students for a research assistant career with Industrial Engineering, manufacturing, research, and product design firms.

Career Opportunities

Completion of this certificate prepares students for a research assistant career with Industrial Engineering, manufacturing, research, and product design firms. This certificate is especially beneficial for students applying for research apprenticeships, research & development firms, technology companies, and companies in need of employees proficient in MATLab. This certificate gives a competitive advantage when applying to apprenticeships and entry-level research positions and can increase their hourly wage earnings. Industrial engineering technician positions are expected to grow by 12%, from 1189 to 1338 over the next five years.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Demonstrate an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health, safety, manufacturability, and sustainability;

- Demonstrate an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering.

Students develop the technical skills required for many entry-level Electronics Technicians' employment opportunities including robotics, IoT, mechatronics, and process control systems in many segments of the electronics industry of the SF Bay Area. Successfully completing these required courses prepares our students for career opportunities in industrial electronics technology

Career Opportunities

Completion of this certificate prepares students for an Electrical & Electronics Worker career with industrial electronic, communications equipment manufacturing, and industrial machinery manufacturing firms. According to Labor Market Information data, electrical and electronics worker positions are expected to grow from 2100 positions in 2016 to 2300 positions by 2026, an increase of 9.5%. Students will be applying electrical and electronics theory and related knowledge to install, adjust, or maintain electro-mechanical, mobile electronics communication equipment, including sound, sonar, security, navigation, and surveillance systems on trains, watercraft, or other electronic/mobile equipment.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Apply knowledge of electronic principles to the areas of robotics, mechatronics, IoT and process control systems.

- Demonstrate the proper use of electronic testing equipment along with the appropriate interpretation of results in the Laboratory.

- Troubleshooting faults in circuit or system operation by assessing quantitative calculations or measurements in the Laboratory.

Students develop the technical skills required for many entry-level Consumer Electronics Technicians employment opportunities in many segments of the electronics industry of the SF Bay Area. Successfully completing these required courses prepares our students for career opportunities in consumer electronics technology

Career Opportunities

Completion of this certificate prepares students for a Consumer Electronics Worker career with computers-peripheral equipment, technical consulting services, electric goods merchant sellers, commercial goods merchant sellers and electronic instrument manufacturing firms. According to Labor Market Information data, consumer electronics worker positions are expected to grow from 2175 positions in 2016 to 2289 positions by 2026, an increase of 4.9%.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Demonstrate fundamental knowledge of basic and advanced electronics.

- Demonstrate the proper use of electronic testing equipment along with the appropriate interpretation of results in the Laboratory.

This certificate provides students who are interested in becoming aides, assistant teachers and head teachers in programs that serve infants and toddlers with the skills and competencies they will need to be successful. This certificate will enable them to become a fully qualified teacher according to state licensing regulations as well as meet the Early Childhood Education course requirements of the California Child Development Permit for Associate Teacher and Teacher (with additional general education requirements and work experience requirements fulfilled). Students who already possess a BA degree in any subject will be able to earn a Master Teacher or Site Supervisor Permit. Students who earn this certificate and meet experience requirements as identified by the CA Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) are eligible to: provide service in the care, development, and instruction of children in a child care and development program, and supervise an Assistant and an aide. A minimum grade of ?C? in each course is required to earn the certificate and/or qualify for the Child Development Permit.

Career Opportunities

All students who complete this certificate will be qualified to work as a preschool teacher; an infant/toddler teachers; an aide; and assistant teachers. Students who already hold a BA (in any subject) will qualify to earn a Site Supervisor Child Development Permit from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing and will be qualified to supervise infant/toddler sites.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Connect observed behaviors of children birth to 36 months to developmental concepts and theories in all developmental domains and analyze the multiple contextual influences on infant and toddler development including diverse family practices and environment;

- Analyze the multiple contextual influences on infant and toddler development including diverse family practices and environment, including strategies to promote healthy relationships in the care and education of infants and toddlers and to create safe and healthy environments which meet licensing requirements and are responsive to the needs of individual infants and toddlers.

This certificate provides students interested in opening a home-based child care business with the essential early childhood education AND essential administrative and entrepreneurship skills they will need to successfully start and operate a business. This certificate will enable a family childcare operator to be a fully qualified teacher according to state standards, to understand the operations/administration of a child care facility, to learn basic entrepreneurship skills, and will provide students with an additional certificate credential to use in marketing.

Career Opportunities

Career opportunities are plenty. In CA predicted number of Child Care workers are estimated around 108,500. In the state of California there are 1,757, 879 children younger than 6 years of age needing child care, as parents work) There are a total of 1,072,943 child care spaces and there are 1,757,879 children younger than 6 needing child care which represents a need for 684,936 spaces for child care in the state of California. Currently 64.6% of children are cared for in child care centers and 35.4% are cared for in family child care homes. (Supply and demand data are provided by the State CCR&R Network and are derived from CCR&R data, or by the state child care licensing office). Family Child Care homes are licensed to care for 6-15 children depending on the size of their homes and licensing requirements. Looking at these statistics in the state of California there is a need for 15, 981 family child care homes in order to meet the needs of spaces for child care. (15 spaces per family child care home and that 35.4% of children are cared for in family child care homes).

Program Learning Outcomes

- Use their own knowledge, appropriate early learning standards, and other resources to design, implement, and evaluate meaningful, challenging curricula for each child in their family child care.

- Assess the value of traditional and new local promotional tools, and be able to select and utilize appropriate tools for family child care business

This non-credit Certificate of Completion aims to prepare students to enter college with a clear academic and career goal, as well as with the skills to navigate and achieve success in the college setting. These noncredit courses differ from credit-bearing courses in that they focus on skill- attainment and can be repeated as deemed necessary by the student.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

1. Evaluate information on careers, personal values, interests, abilities, salary expectations, and work environment preferences to make a decision on major and career.

2. Develop an educational plan to achieve their academic and career goal.

3. Identify personal and systemic barriers that impede academic and career success.

4. Apply effective personal management strategies, study skills, and internal psychological resources that support academic and career success.

5. Identify and access external resources (such as student services departments and programs, instructional departments, academic support services, or off-campus supports etc) to support academic success.

6. Demonstrate knowledge about how to successfully navigate college policies and procedures to access both in person and online courses and programs.

The Construction Pre-Apprenticeship program features the Multi-Craft Core (MC3) curriculum approved by the National Building Trades that gives participants a leg up in understanding the crafts, gaining safety
certificates, and being able to prepare for a successful apprenticeship. The program includes 176 hours of classroom instruction and 96 hours of hands-on training where students will gain experience in framing,
electrical, plumbing, sheet metal, masonry and more. Also included is instruction in blueprint reading, CPR/First Aid, Hazmat, and OSHA 10 training.

If you like the idea of working outside, working with your hands, and working as part of a team, then a career in construction might be for you. Pre-Apprenticeship enables you to learn about various crafts and explore which ones you might want to pursue. You will be introduced to the tools of the trades, beef up your math skills, learn about how to work safely, and much more. This 16-week program is geared to preparing you for the rigors of the industry, but they do NOT guarantee entrance into an apprenticeship program.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

1. Evaluate information on careers, personal values, interests, abilities, salary expectations, and work environment preferences to make a decision on major and career.

2. Develop an educational plan to achieve their academic and career goal.

3. Identify personal and systemic barriers that impede academic and career success.

4. Apply effective personal management strategies,study skills, and internal psychological resources that support academic and career success.

5. Identify and access external resources (such as student services departments and programs, instructional departments, academic support services, or off-campus supports etc) to support academic success.

6. Demonstrate knowledge about how to successfully navigate college policies and procedures to access both in person and online courses and programs.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate use of developer tools to create web pages that include a full range of web elements.

2. Communicate information on the Internet through the design and programming of professional interactive, multimedia web sites.

3. Use industry standard software for web development and build standard compliant web pages.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate software game development skills by designing a complete game synopsis using a variety of computer programming tools, techniques and practices.

2. Develop a complete game environment with individual detailed narratives and related storyboards and illustrations that define the characters, game strategy, and storyline behind the game using a variety of technologies.

3. Construct a working 3D environment utilizing industry-standard software to create a short narrative animation project.

College Skills Certificate in Foundation

1. Demonstrate technological proficiency operating a computer system using common operating systems and a range of applications.