Advanced Manufacturing and Advanced Technology

Making it in California with CACT

California Centers for Applied Competitive Technologies (CACT) are dedicated to serving California's advanced manufacturing and advanced technology companies with innovative solutions that are unique and customized to your business. Our grant programs and leveraged partnerships allow us to offer the most cost-effective workforce training and consultative services for California's advanced technology businesses. We have the same goals as California businesses—when you succeed, we succeed.

  • A better return on your workforce investment
  • Our experts make it easy for you
  • Greater profitability and improved quality
  • Increased productivity and reduced waste
  • College approved curriculum and excellent training expertise
  • Unbiased professional evaluation
  • Access to advanced technology
  • Competitive pricing due to leveraged public sector funding
  • High performance employees
  • Improved employee safety and reduced hazards

Centers for Applied Competitive Technologies (CACT)

Develops – Workforce skills in advanced technology

Improves – Advanced management and manufacturing processes

Accesses – New manufacturing technologies

Contact

Jose Anaya - Statewide CACT Director
Dean of Community Advancement
El Camino College
13430 Hawthorne Blvd.
Hawthorne, CA 90250
Phone: (310) 973-3165
Fax: (310) 973-3132
Email: janaya@cccewd.net
Web: www.makingitincalifornia.com

CACT Centers

CACT @ College of the Canyons
26455 Rockwell Canyon Rd.
Santa Clarita, CA 91355
Joe Klocko, CACT Director
Phone: (661) 362-3111
Fax: (661) 294-1807
Email: Joe.Klocko@Canyons.edu

CACT @ De Anza College
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Professional & Workforce Development
12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Ellen Miller, CACT Director
Phone: (650) 949-7795
Fax: (650) 949-7798
Email: millerellen@fhda.edu

CACT @ El Camino College
13430 Hawthorne Blvd., Hawthorne, CA 90250
David Gonzales, CACT Director
Phone: (310) 973-3170
Fax: (310) 973-3132
Email: dgonzales@elcamino.edu

  

CACT @ San Diego City College
1414 Park Blvd., Room T-216
San Diego, CA 92101-8747
Trudy Gerald, CACT Director
Phone: (619) 388-3730
Fax: (619) 388-3165
Email: trugerald@aol.com

CACT @ College of the Sequoias
915 S. Mooney Blvd.
Visalia, CA 93277
Louann Waldner, CACT Director
Phone: (559) 737-4838
Fax: (559) 737-6144
Email: louannw@cos.edu


CACT @ Sierra College
Roseville Gateway Center
5000 Rocklin Rd.
Rocklin, CA 95677
Carol Pepper-Kittredge, CACT Director
Phone: (916) 660-7517
Email: cpepper-kittredge@sierracollege.edu

“A key success factor for BE Aerospace was that we could comply with the quality certification requirements, improve the skills of our existing workforce, and achieve results quickly at minimal costs. The CACT team was very knowledgeable, willing, and capable of understanding our needs, and working with us to achieve results.”

Julio Perez
BE Aerospace


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