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Letter of Commitment: Orange County Bridge to Engineering Project Among Workforce Partners: Santa Ana Workforce Investment Board; Growth Sector Education Partners: Canada, and Santa Ana Community Colleges, California State University Fullerton, University of California Irvine, RapidTech; Employer Partners: OCTANe; Autodesk Manufacturing Users Group The above-named partners have collaborated on an application for a H-1B Technical Skills Training Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, The partners listed above have agreed to enter into a collaborative agreement in which the Santa Ana Workforce Investmet Board will be the lead agency and named applicant and the other agencies will be partners in this application. The partners wish to enter into a Letter of Commitment setting forth the services to be provided by the collaborative, All of the Workforce and Education partners have an established and successful record of providing employment and training, education, collaborative workforce development projects and working closely with local and regional employers, as described in more detail in the technical narrative of the grant application attached to this agreement. The Employer partners listed above have approached the workforce and education partners with their need to develop a future workforce and contribute to improved education and training of engineers in southern California, as described in detail in the technical narrative.Our Foundation partner is extremely active in STEM education and engineering workforce issues. This application was planned and prepared by the lead agency, Santa Ana Workforce Investment Board, in collaboration with the aforementioned partners, through a series of discussions amongst senior management from each entity, The partners have worked together to develop information about the extent of the need for the proposed services, existing service gaps, scope of services, and the proposed project budget. All signing partners have approved this application, which is a request for new funding for the Orange County Bridge to Engineering Project (OC 132E) to be submitted to the U,S. Department of Labor on or before June 2, 2011. The partners enter into this Letter of Commitment and assert that the primary goal of OC 132E is to develop a sustainable, integrated system for channeling students through pre-college into four-year university engineering programs while preparing them for real-world work situations. To achieve this goal, project partners will: • Build a nine-month intensive Core Engineering Bridge course that incorporates a jump start math boot camp; an intensive and integrated math program including algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus, and introduction to engineering careers • Enable OC B2E participants to directly enter the already established four year community college/CSU/UC engineering pathways • Enable OC B2E cohorts to move through most of their first two years as a learning community. • Support cohorts of students through the pathways with tutoring, mentoring, case management academic and financial aid and counseling • Offer intensive Summer Engineering Institutes with project based learning • Facilitate transfers to four-year universities' engineering programs for OC B2E graduates • Provide paid and unpaid internships and career exploration opportunities for participating students This Letter of Commitment details the roles and responsibilities for the lead agency and each collaborative partner in implementing the proposed Orange County Bridge to Engineering Project (OC B2E) The terms of this LOC are conditional on the U,S. Department of Labor awarding a H1B Technical Skills Training grant to Santa Ana WIB Grant amounts and matching funds are subject to revision based on the financial circumstances and budgets of the undersigned cooperating agencies. Since the budget will be negotiated finally once the grant is awarded, we are not specifying the dollar amounts of the grant award per agency