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MIMIC home	Making Industry Meaningful In College, or MIMIC, is a nationally recognized curriculum project that places Illinois Valley Community College students from engineering design, electronics and business in teams to design, manufacture, market and sell a product. The student teams, called "companies," simulate an industrial company structure, allowing the students to experience a workplace environment in a classroom setting. The MIMIC project stresses teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving and communication as it provides students with opportunities to sharpen their technical skills.
Products
Production
Presentations
Team Building
End of Project Celebration
MIMIC Classes
This Year's Project - 2008
Previous MIMIC Years
Origin of MIMIC
Student Guide Book
Instructors
Awards/Recognition
Tech Prep Team Web Site
MIMIC-related projects: Day Care Camp Puppet Theatre
MIMIC / NSF News
MIMIC Workshop for high school teachers / administrators
	In 2005, IVCC received a National Science Foundation Grant (#0501885) to utilize the MIMIC project to build continuous quality improvement into the two-year technical programs in engineering design and electronics and to improve recruiting and retention. The three-year grant is providing some support for MIMIC. The project, which originated at IVCC in 1995, has been funded primarily through the IVCC Tech Prep Team from funding provided by the IVCC/SRAVTE Tech Prep Consortium.

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