This course provides in-depth training for employees and employers on the recognition, avoidance, abatement, and prevention of safety and health hazards in the workplace. The course is for all management levels - first responders, safety professionals, manufacturing / production, and healthcare. Course covers how to identify safety and health hazards in the workplace, how to file an OSHA complaint, electrical Safety, general ergonomics, personal and protective equipment, workplace emergencies, blood-borne pathogens, machine Guarding, and more.

This program is approved for the Arkansas Workforce Challenge Scholarship.

Basic Eligibility Criteria

An applicant must:

• Be an Arkansas resident
• Be a high school graduate or received high school equivalency
• Not be a current recipient of the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship
• Be accepted for admission in a program of study at an approved institution of higher education that leads to an associate degree or a certificate program in the fields of Industry, Health Care, or Information Technology.

Award Amounts

The Workforce Challenge Award will be the cost of a certificate program or 

This course will increase your knowledge of the Control-Logix 5000 controller capabilitieprogram of study not to exceed $800. 

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Course Description:

In this course, you will gain a deeper understanding of project development tasks and applications, learn how to create and organize a RSLogix 5000 project, creating new programs, routines, periodic event tasks and applications. You will also learn to configure Addon instructions, User Defined Data Tables, Producer Consumer Messaging and PID.

Ken Walsh started his career as an Electrical Engineer developing automated sawmill equipment. He worked for Rockwell Automation for just under 20 years as a field support engineer where he saw applications everywhere imaginable. Ken is also a proud Vietnam era veteran.

• Experience in Automation Systems, software, System Design, Pneumatics, Electric Motor Drives, Panel Design, logic controllers, HMI project management, startup, troubleshooting and repair with disciplines applied across a multitude of industries.
• Broad knowledge of general automation, networks, motion control, drive systems and process control that spans across multiple control vendors.
• Experience with networks and communications includes: Controlnet, Devicenet, Ethernet, Modbus.

The Arkansas Steelmaking Bootcamp is a job skills initiative designed to prepare people for the urgent labor demand in the steel manufacturing industry in Mississippi County. 

The Bootcamp is comprised of 80 hours of workforce education and training that provides participants with entry-level knowledge for entering a career in steelmaking. 

The 80-hour Bootcamp will be offered over a two-week period (Monday-Friday) with open entry, meaning that participants will not have to wait until the next cycle begins to start training.  Participants can enter at any point.

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CREDENTIALS

• OSHA 10 - General Industry
• American Heart Association First Aid CPR
• Certificate of Completion 80 Hours

BOOTCAMP TRAINING TOPICS

• Team Building - 4 hours
• First Aid/CPR - 6 hours
• Radio Protocol - 2 hours
• Steelmaking Processes - 4 hours
• Preventative Maintenance - 4 hours
• Math for Manufacturing - 4 hours
• OSHA 10 - 10 hours
• Quality Basics for Operators - 4 hours
• Mechanical Measurements - 2 hours
• Proper Use of Tools - 3 hoursAnti-Harassment - 7 hour
• Technical Math - 4 hours
• Personal Financial Planning - 2 hours
• Steel Mill Economics - 4 hours
• Forklift Safety - 4 hours
• Crane Safety - 4 hours
• Hydraulics/Pneumatics - 8 hours
• Basic Electrical Applications - 6 hours
• Fundamentals of Blueprint Reading - 4 hours

Total Hours - 80 hours

More Information:

For more information regarding the Arkansas Steelmaking Bootcamp, please contact us!

workforce@asun.edu  |  870-680-8743

This course provides advanced tools for solving real-world problems in Microsoft Excel 2019: lookup and decision-making functions, auditing and error-handling, array functions, date and text functions, importing and exporting, what-if-analysis, and macros.

Excel Level 3 is a continuation of Level 2, participants should have those skills before taking Excel Level 3. Course objectives are If Statements, Lookup Functions, Date and Text Functions, What-If Analysis, Exporting, Importing using Power Pivot, Simple Macros and Form Tools.

This 40-hour MIG Welding course introduces the skills and knowledge necessary to set up equipment and make sound welds using the short circuit MIG welding process. Items covered will include shop safety, set up and operation of GMAW equipment, weld joints and positions, and welding of carbon steel using the GMAW short circuit process.

Required Supplies:

Students will need to wear long sleeve cotton shirt, long cotton pants, and leather work shoes to every class.

Students will need to bring a welding helmet (shade 9 or variable), MIG welidng gloves, and safety glasses to every class. 

This 40-hour Stick Welding course introduces the skills and knowledge necessary to set up equipment and make sound welds using the SMAW or "Stick" welding process. Items covered will include shop safety, set up and operation of welding equipment, weld joints and positions, and welding of carbon steel using various rod types.

Required Supplies:

Students will need to wear long sleeve cotton shirt, long cotton pants, and leather work shoes to every class.

Students will need to bring a welding helmet (shade 9 or variable), welidng gloves, safety glasses, chipping hammer, and wire brush to every class. 

The Cybersecurity Resiliency in Industrial Control Systems course is designed to enhance understanding ofthe critical nature of Industrial Control System environments and the associated risks, threats, and defenseswithin an organization, business, or government entity. This course will introduce the convergence ofphysical security with cybersecurity, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and Industrial ControlSystems security, increase awareness of the Internet of Things and Industrial Control Systems, and examinethe threat landscape within Industrial Control Systems. Cyber threat mitigation techniques will be examinedas well as methods of identifying cyber attacks and vulnerabilities. Tools to respond to and recover fromcyber attacks on Industrial Control Systems will be addressed.

Topics

• Internet of Things and Industrial ControlSystems Review

• Threat Landscape

• Mitigating Threats

• Detecting Vulnerabilities and Attacks

• Responding to and Recovering from Attacks

Prerequisites: None

Recommended: AWR402 Introduction to Internet of Things

FEMA / SID NumberStudents must register and bring a copy of theirSID number to class.

Register online:https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=EC&C=PER398&S=13

This course is designed to provide guidance for the implementation of an effective cybersecurity incident recovery program from a pre-incident and post-incident perspective. The training focuses on connecting IT with emergency management and is intended for government, critical infrastructure, and private sector personnel who have the responsibility for recovering after a cyber incident. Short term tactical and long-term strategic activities are discussed culminating in the development of an action plan.

Topics

•Cyber terminology
•Cyber incident life cycle
•Threat levels
•Emergency management
•Recovery continuum
•Government’s role in cybersecurity
•Cyber and the incident command system
•Federal resources for cyber
•Key programmatic elements that improverecovery
•Plan, organize, equip, train, exerciseconsiderations
•Short-term recovery actions
•Long-term recovery actions
•Cyber incident recovery action plan

Prerequisites

FEMA / SID NumberStudents must register and bring a copy of theirSID number to class. Register online:cdp.dhs.gov/femasid

Recommendations

AWR 136 (Instructor led) – Essentials of Community CybersecurityAWR 175-W (Online) – Information Security for Everyone

Register at https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=NE&C=MGT465&S=31