NCMS and Excel Institute Form Educational Partnership

Manufacturing Consortium Will Share Hi-Tech Training Expertise

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 29 -- The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) today announced a new partnership with the Excel Institute in Washington, DC. NCMS will support the Institute in its mission to provide education, automotive technology training, work place counseling and job placement assistance to students as they train for a career in the automotive repair field and earn their Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) certification.

"NCMS is enthusiastic about its new partnership with the Excel Institute," says NCMS Senior Vice President Rebecca Taylor. "The partnership draws on the strengths of both organizations allowing NCMS to leverage its manufacturing and business expertise with Excel's education and training programs. We are eager to collaborate with Excel to develop state of the art education and training tools making the Excel curriculum available to a broader range of students in the Washington area."

NCMS will help the Excel Institute update its curriculum by converting content using the latest multimedia technologies. The project includes the development of a new web presence which will allow students to access course content remotely and will also include the design and installation of a new computer lab for the Excel Institute.

About NCMS

NCMS is the largest cross-industry collaborative research and development consortium in North America, and is the only consortial effort in the U.S. devoted exclusively to manufacturing technologies, processes and practices. NCMS has more than 17 years of experience in the formation and management of collaborative R&D programs, and is backed by virtually every sector of the manufacturing community.

About The Excel Institute

The Excel Institute is a two-year workplace skills program providing a professional staff, exciting curriculum, basic literacy education, automotive training, workplace counseling, and on-the-job training. Excel Institute offers young men and women, in Washington, DC, the opportunity to train for a career, earn a high school equivalency diploma, and obtain an unsubsidized job in the automotive industry.