Centers for Applied Competitive Technologies - Making It In California

CACT @ Riverside Community College District

2001 Third Street
Norco, CA 92860

Henry "Hank" Rogers, CACT Director
T (951) 372-7137
F (951) 372-7139
Email: hank.rogers@rcc.edu

Riverside Community College District

Industry Focus

For over ten years, the CACT @ Riverside Community College District has served customers in Riverside and San Bernardino counties engaged in manufacturing, design, engineering and logistics. Some of the Riverside CACT's specialties include industrial maintenance, Lean and Six Sigma (in either Spanish or English), Rapid Prototyping, and Quality Systems.

Core Competencies

  • Engineering and process technologies
  • Industrial Maintenance
  • Managerial and supervisory education (CEU's)
  • Computer aided design and drafting training
  • Skills standards and certifications
  • Plastics, composites and metallurgy
  • Rapid prototyping/manufacturing
  • Benchmarking, Quality ISO 9000 and AS9100
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), APICS
  • Machining skills, CNC programming and CAD/CAM

Current Customers

  • Goodrich Aerostructures
  • Reid Products

Special Projects

  • Provide summer robotics academies geared to junior and high school students
  • Expose students to the latest technologies in Computer Numeric Control and Rapid Prototyping
  • Provide students with opportunities to meet industry leaders through the Introduction to Engineering class
  • Provide students with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the state-of-the-art manufacturing lab

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The Riverside Community College District CACT has been able to provide us with crucial training in the area of PLCs and power transmission for our industrial maintenance technicians. Recently, we have invested heavily in new manufacturing process technologies for which the CACT has developed and presented much-needed training.

Antonio Fulk
Manager of Human Resources
Goodrich Aerostructures
Riverside Plant