CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY, ESSEX
Engineering / Architecture
Advisory Board Meeting
Minutes – June 18, 2019
The meeting was held in the Engineering/Architectural Design classroom at CTE. The
advisory Group was split for this meeting into only the (Mechanical) Engineering advisors.
Present at meeting:
Jim Dirmaier – Instructor
Cory Arcovitch – Husky Injection Molding
Michael Perrault – ExactBuilt
Robert Smith – Retired Mechanical Engineer
The meeting was called to order at 7:16 AM.
Jim handed out the agenda:
●Jim welcomed the group and went over the agenda for the meeting. Jim noted that
there were no visitors present to be heard. The agenda for the meeting:
●Review of curriculum and student portfolios
●Review of the year’s activities
●Discussion of Industry partnerships
●Discussion of student coop opportunities
●New Business
●Jim introduced the members to each other with a special introduction to Cory and
Michael who are new members. Both are mechanical engineers and are graduates of
the CTE engineering program: Michael in1994 and Cory in 2011.
●A review of the Program Curriculum: Jim went over some of the key elements of
both the 1st and 2nd years of the program. This was to bring the members up to
speed with the current curriculum, the software used, and the main concepts
taught in the program. Jim highlighted the following from the curriculum:
●Freehand Sketching: Freehand sketching is still taught as the first unit during
the early part of the year and is required on all projects before students can put
their designs on CAD (Computer Aided Design) software. The group briefly
discussed the value of this to the design process and agreed that in the future
