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Machine Manufacturing entertains staff and KOIN TV
Photos and story by James Hill
On May 6, Sylvania’s Machine Manufacturing and Engineering departments partnered on a “Mini-Mag” flashlight workshop, where faculty and staff were taught how to make their own flashlights – complete with casings, bulbs and handles with etchings – using machinist and engineering equipment.
KOIN-TV (Ch. 6) came out to cover the open house/workshop and report on opportunities in the field, along with wages that can be earned: general machinists and computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tool operators can earn from $11 to $27 per hour, while tool and die makers make between $18 and $32 an hour.
Sylvania student Don Birkley shows KOIN-TV reporter Ellen Hansen part of the flashlight casing he’s helping to create at the annual open house organized by Pat Kraft of the Machine Manufacturing department and the Engineering department.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »