October 17, 2008
For Immediate Release

RCCC Receives Electrical Equipment Donation

          SALISBURY, N.C. — The Electrical/Electronics (ELC) Technology Program at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College received an equipment donation from Baldor Electric Co., worth more than $8,000.

           Baldor Electric Co., markets, designs and manufactures industrial electric motors, power transmission products, drives and generators. The company is based in Fort Smith, Ark.

           Baldor’s donation of four softstarters and three inverter drives will be used by RCCC students studying electrical motors and controls. Terry Cremeans, a Baldor product manager, and Bill Whitlow, a North Carolina sales representative with Baldor, recently came to RCCC and presented the equipment before an assembled ELC class. Cremeans even offered to return to RCCC and personally provide additional training on using the equipment.

           Hilton Lingle, owner of Lingle Electric Repair Inc., in Salisbury, a long time customer of Baldor Electric, requested and coordinated the donation to RCCC. Jonathan Lingle, son of Hilton, a principal of Lingle Electric and a 2005 ELC graduate of RCCC, also attended the presentation.

           "We thank Baldor Electric for its generous contribution, and we thank Lingle Electric for being such a good local partner of RCCC and the ELC program," said Tony Deyton, ELC program head. "The donated equipment will enhance our students’ motors and control lab experience. Our students also will have the opportunity to work with some of the latest technology in the industry."

          RCCC's Electrical/Electronics Technology program is designed to provide training for persons interested in the installation and maintenance of electrical/electronic systems found in residential, commercial and industrial facilities.

          Training, most of which is hands-on, includes AC/DC theory, basic wiring practices, digital electronics, programmable logic controllers, industrial motor controls, the national electric code and other subjects as local needs require. Graduates qualify for a variety of jobs in the electrical/electronics field as an on-the-job trainee or apprentice assisting in the layout, installation and maintenance of electrical/electronic systems.

           Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is a comprehensive, community-based institution of higher learning, serving the citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus Counties. RCCC offers approximately 40 programs of study in business, health and human services and engineering technologies at multiple campus locations. RCCC annually provides more than 2,000 course offerings, serving an enrollment of approximately 20,000 adult students. RCCC programs include an associate degree in arts and sciences, an associate degree in applied science, and diploma and certificate programs focusing on workforce training, continuing education and basic skills education.

           In addition, RCCC provides the education and job-training programs needed to meet many of the workforce demands of the North Carolina Research Campus, under construction in Kannapolis, N.C.

           For complete details, see the RCCC website at www.rowancabarrus.edu.