Redesigned classrooms, high-tech manufacturing and learning tools, and updated teaching methods await students at Gemological Institute of America’s (GIA’s) Carlsbad, Calif., campus.
“Graduates from these courses will enter the jewellery industry with up-to-date skills and unsurpassed experience,” said Mark Mann, GIA’s director of global jewellery manufacturing arts.
“By incorporating the latest technologies like rapid prototyping of designs using wax mills and 3-D printers, we’re preparing students for how the industry works today, saving future employers time and money.”
The upgrades refer to GIA’s graduate jeweller (GJ) and jewellery design and technology (JDT) courses.
The use of iPads will become central to teaching GJ courses, while GJ and JDT classrooms have also been reorganized and remodelled to accommodate the latest manufacturing technology for design, engineering, product development, custom orders, manufacturing, repair, and quality assurance.
