In slightly more than a decade, Eastern Iowa Community College District has opened the doors on a number of training centers, specializing in specific areas of study.

These centers of excellence draw together the many resources that the district and its colleges have to offer in a single location. In addition to EICCD's resources, the centers have also benefited from financial assistance at both the state and federal levels.

The most recent addition to these centers is the Midwest Center for Safety & Rescue Training (MCSRT). In 2007, EICCD acquired a former water park just off Interstate 80 in Davenport. The unique features of the facility allow the college to offer water rescue training in addition to a wide variety of fire, emergency and safety training classes.

Opened just two years before the MSCRT, in 2005, was the Muscatine Industrial Technology Center. Located on the Muscatine Community College campus, the center trains the workers of today and tomorrow in welding, hydraulics, pneumatics, electricity, programmable logic control and robotics.

Located just a mile from the MCSRT is the John T. Blong Technology Center (BTC). The BTC's many services include everything from credit programs to industrial training; from team building to coaching skills. The center provides local businesses and workers much-needed training and education.

To the north, Clinton Community College's Graphic Arts Technology Center (GATC) is the home for the college's programs in Graphic Arts, Computer Aided Design and Mechatronics.

A spin-off of GATC, now located in Davenport, is the Graphic Arts Training and Consulting Group. It provides expert training for newspapers, commercial printers, in-plant departments and marketing and design professionals in the areas of customer support, publishing, design and printing software, offset and digital presses and binding and finishing services.

Finally, the Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center (ATEEC) in Bettendorf is the only one of its kind in the country. Providing training for environmental, health, safety, energy and natural resource technicians it is also a National Science Foundation Center of Excellence.

To learn more about any of these centers, simply click on the links to the right.