Facility
Built for hands-on training
A $27 million, 39,700-square-foot center built to train the industrial systems and robotics workforce southeast Georgia's manufacturers are short on.
39,700 sq ft
Purpose-built training space
$27M
Facility investment
~460,000 hrs
Instructional capacity per year
Overview
GTCIO's facility serves both credit students and incumbent workers. The building holds 12 industrial labs alongside classrooms, computer labs, and meeting space, and it's stocked with real industrial equipment (maintenance, automation, controls) so students train on the same tools they'll use on the job. It was planned as a regional center rather than a single college's building: Ogeechee Tech partnered with Southeastern Technical College to train manufacturers across their service areas once the center came online, which avoids duplicating facilities across the region. The space also trains and certifies instructors from across Georgia and the nation.
What it will look like
What the center is built around
The center was planned around four areas of advanced manufacturing, the skills southeast Georgia's employers are hiring for.
Industrial Systems Maintenance
Keeping production equipment running: electrical and mechanical systems, fluid power, motor controls, and the troubleshooting that ties them together.
Industrial Robotics Programming & Fault Diagnostics
Programming industrial robots, and diagnosing them when a line goes down and the robot is the reason.
IoT Infrastructure & Troubleshooting
The connected sensors, networks, and data behind a smart manufacturing facility, and what to do when that layer misbehaves.
CNC in Advanced Manufacturing
Computer-controlled machining, the precision side of modern manufacturing.