Has a North American Wind Research and Training Center.
911 South Tenth Street
Tucumcari, New Mexico 88401
Phone: (575) 461-4413
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This review reflects on the MCC Wind Energy Technology program, not the college as a whole. There are many exceptional programs and instructors at MCC. The WET program is unfortunately far from exceptional and in need of a complete overhaul. Many of the things I was told when I enrolled were simply not true. If you wish to know specifics, feel free to contact me at girdnas@hotmail.com.
The ratings I give below reflect my experience over the past two years in the MCC WET program.
This school needs to get their priorities in line. I went here for both years and received my two year AAS with a 3.9 GPA, and I feel incredibly unprepared for the workplace.
The school has thousands of dollars of generic industrial equipment (not wind energy equipment which is available), and no one to teach it. Our instructors do not feel it is worth their time or effort to learn the lab equipment and expect us to teach ourselves for the entirety of both years. And if you have any questions or problems with the labs don’t expect them to help too much help.
There is also the issue that the school sends out recruiting packets with false information. When the program opened its doors in 2008 they promised GUARANTEED internships with wind sites for both years. This has not happened once since then, and they still have the gall to keep it in the pamphlets and continue to send them to potential students that have no idea what they are getting themselves into to this very day. By the time a student moves out to Tucumcari and finds out that they lied, it is for the most part too late to find another school.
I think the solution for Mesaland’s is to close down the program for at least a year, and instead of sending your instructors to prisons over the summer to teach inmates to let them create an actual curriculum for their classes. That way when we have three hour class blocks we could use all three hours and talk about pertinent information about the wind industry. Instead we pay for three or four credit hours and stay in the class room for about 20-30 minutes before the instructors run of class material and release the class for the day.
I was also appalled by the fact that MCC is rated fourth in the listings here, I have a feeling that Mesaland’s faculty is responsible for that. Like Travis I could give more details, if you want them please message me at zfourman@gmail.com
After two years of a program that started badly and then went to hell, I have not ony wasted my time and money, I have wasted two years of my life. The school has many quality instructors, however, they are not in the wind program. After I found out they went to Durango, CO (hometown) to recruit, I was up there the next week telling them to go somewhere else. I have not only been lied to time and time again, the “director” of the program can’t even read. The other “director” who spent the first three years in a 4×8 room not even knowing who the students were, was forced into the class room to teach because the “Institution was not looking to hire”. He has zero business in the classroom much less dealing with the public. This program is 99% online now because they care more about how much money the turbine is making versus the quality of education the students are getting. Last semester (s) the average classroom time was 22 minutes.(Paid for three hours per wind class) The first year had much more hope. Then due to gross incompentence they let the only hope for the program leave. I got what I paid for (nothing) and way too much sunshine blown up my ass for it. I am 48 years old and I was running million dollar projects before I got to this mess.(My former company was sold to the Mexican Cartel) You may contact me at bayfieldkid@yahoo.com