School Overview

Geographic location and service area: Moraine Park Technical College is located in Wisconsin and mainly serves the local community and surrounding areas. Its convenient geographical location allows local students to commute and provides convenient vocational and technical education opportunities for residents in the area.

History and development: With a long history, it has been keeping up with the changes in local economic and social needs over the years of development, constantly updating and improving teaching facilities and curriculum settings, and gradually becoming one of the important vocational and technical education institutions in Wisconsin.

Academic Programs

Wide range of professional fields:

Health Sciences: Nursing, Medical Assistant, Dental Assistant and other majors are provided. The Nursing major provides students with comprehensive nursing knowledge and practical skills training, including basic nursing, clinical nursing operations, patient care management and other courses. Through internships in simulated wards and real clinical environments, students can master the ability to provide nursing services to patients in hospitals, long-term care institutions and other places. The Medical Assistant major focuses on cultivating students' ability to work in a medical office environment, such as assisting doctors in examinations, recording medical records, and arranging patient appointments. The dental assistant major focuses on the dental field. Courses include oral anatomy, dental materials, dental surgery assistance, etc., so that students can provide professional assistance to dentists in dental clinics.

Business and Information Technology: There are majors such as accounting, e-commerce, and computer network technology. Accounting students learn courses such as financial accounting, management accounting, and taxation, and can perform financial accounting and financial management for enterprises or individuals. The e-commerce major covers knowledge such as online marketing, e-commerce platform operations, and electronic payment systems, so that students can adapt to the rapidly developing Internet business environment. The computer network technology major focuses on cultivating students' ability to build, maintain, and manage computer networks, including network topology, network security, and network equipment configuration.

Industrial and Manufacturing Technology: Including majors such as mechanical engineering technology, welding technology, and automation technology. Students majoring in mechanical engineering technology learn courses such as mechanical design, manufacturing technology, and CNC programming, and can participate in the design, manufacture, and commissioning of mechanical products. The welding technology major provides students with training in a variety of welding methods, such as manual arc welding, gas shielded welding, etc., and focuses on welding quality control and safe operation, so that students can engage in welding work in manufacturing, construction, and other fields after graduation. The Automation Technology major focuses on cultivating students' ability to design, install, debug and maintain automation equipment and systems. Courses include automation control principles, programmable logic controller (PLC) programming, sensors and actuators, etc.

Degree and certificate system: Associate degree, technical diploma and certificate courses are provided. The associate degree course usually lasts about two years and provides students with a more systematic knowledge and skills system, so that students can directly enter the workplace after graduation or choose to transfer to a four-year university for further study. Technical diploma and certificate courses are shorter, ranging from a few months to more than a year. These courses are highly targeted and enable students to quickly master professional skills in specific fields and quickly enter related industries for employment.

Teaching mode and resources

Practical teaching is the core: practical teaching is emphasized, with various advanced laboratories, internship workshops and simulated work scenes. For example, in the internship workshop of the automotive technology major, equipped with vehicles of various brands and models, advanced automotive testing equipment and maintenance tools, students can perform practical operations such as automotive fault diagnosis, repair and maintenance under the guidance of teachers. In the kitchen lab of the culinary arts major, there are professional cooking equipment and ingredients, where students can practice cooking skills, learn food processing and catering service management.

Faculty: The teaching team is composed of people with rich industry experience and professional knowledge. They can not only impart theoretical knowledge, but also integrate cases and experience from actual work into the teaching process. Many teachers maintain close contact with local companies, can keep abreast of industry trends, and adjust teaching content based on this information to ensure that the knowledge and skills learned by students are closely integrated with market demand.

Student Support Services

Career Service Center: A career service center has been established to provide students with comprehensive employment support. This includes career planning consultation to help students clarify their career goals; resume preparation and interview skills training to improve students' competitiveness in the job search process; organizing job fairs and corporate visits to build a bridge for students to communicate with employers, so that students have more opportunities to contact potential employers and understand industry trends.

Academic Support Services: Provide learning counseling, academic counseling and other services. Learning counseling includes one-on-one counseling for students with learning difficulties to help them solve problems encountered in course learning, such as learning barriers in basic courses such as mathematics and English. Academic counseling provides students with advice on major selection, course arrangement, credit conversion, etc. to ensure that students can successfully complete their studies.

Campus culture and student life

Campus culture features: Campus culture focuses on cultivating students' professional qualities and practical abilities. The school encourages students to actively participate in practical activities and cultivate their teamwork spirit and sense of responsibility through practical operations and project cooperation. On campus, students often carry out projects in groups, and this cooperative atmosphere helps students better adapt to the future work environment.

Student clubs and extracurricular activities: There are various student clubs covering interests, academic exchanges, community services and other fields. For example, there is a robotics club where students can study and make robots together; there is also a volunteer service club that organizes students to participate in community public welfare activities, such as providing help to the elderly in local nursing homes. These club activities enrich students' extracurricular life and cultivate students' comprehensive qualities.