Centers for Applied Competitive Technologies - Making It In California

CACT @ Los Angeles Community College District

770 Wilshire Blvd., 7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017

Grace Ishikawa, CACT Director
T (213) 891-2415
F (213) 891-2055
Email: ishikagm@laccd.edu

CACT @ Los Angeles Community College District

Industry Focus

CACT @ Los Angeles Community College District serves as a conduit for assisting companies to their next innovative discovery, and for delivering technical assistance, employee training and guidance so that each employer and all employees can grow in a rapidly changing global marketplace.

CACT @ Los Angeles Community College District is committed to providing a full range of services to all 16,000 plus manufacturers in its region to help them grow and change, and to work in partnership with other CACTs and organizations to ensure that all companies have the opportunity to accept and overcome the next challenge, and stay competitive.

Core Competencies

  • Automotive
  • Aviation Maintenance and Technology
  • Blue Print Reading
  • Customer Service Skills
  • Electronics
  • Environment Technology
  • Gap Analysis
  • Garment and Apparel Design
  • ISO 9001
  • Leadership Skills
  • Lean Manufacturing/Enterprise
  • Process Improvement
  • Machining
  • Management/Supervisory Skills
  • Microsoft Computer Training
  • Total Quality Management
  • Safety and Risk Management
  • Soldering
  • Welding Gas and Electric
  • Woodworking Manufacturing Technologies
  • Vocation English as a Second Language (VESL)

Current Customers

  • Boeing
  • Northrop
  • Jason Products
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
  • Wedbush Morgan Securities

Special Projects

Space Technologies Education Program (STEP)
The STEP fosters the development of mechanical and electrical fabrication technicians with the advanced skills needed by the NASA/JPL workforce. STEP is fortunate to have forged a partnership with Los Angeles Trade Technical College to help JPL identify students who will be interested in a unique and challenging work environment of developing spacecraft, instruments, sensors, and other technologies for a national research laboratory.

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The interview with the CACT was quite an eye-opener, causing us to realize for the first time just how much 'big bang for the buck' training the Community Colleges offer to local manufacturers and metalworking job shops.

C.H. Bush, Editor
CNC West Magazine