CARCAM (Consortium for Alabama Regional Center for
Automobile Manufacturing) is comprised of a network of community
colleges partnering together to produce a highly-skilled workforce for
today’s manufacturing field. Educating students in today’s cutting-edge
technology, they attract, enroll and help graduate students specifically
for automotive manufacturing careers. To keep training relevant to the
industry’s needs, CARCAM works directly with industry leaders such as
Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes and others to give graduates an advantage.
Mavon Copeland is a successful CARCAM graduate who earned an
Associate of Applied Science Degree from Wallace State Community College.
“I had always been interested in electronics and robotics and decided to
change my major again,” said Copeland, “I kind of took off from there and
enjoy everything about it to this day.”
Copeland took advantage of a co-op/internship opportunity while attending
Wallace State. He attended classes on campus two days a week and drove
to Smyrna, Tennessee for the weekends where he shadowed maintenance
technicians at Nissan’s Battery Plant.
IMAGES COURTESY OF HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA
AND NISSAN NORTH AMERICA.
Copeland has continued to soar within his field and as a Maintenance
Technologist at the Nissan Battery Plant. This facility produces the lithium
ion batteries for Nissan’s “Green” technology vehicle, the Leaf.
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