Technology today is at a crossroad between Industry 4.0 and 5.0, where products and services are manufactured and designed to be ‘human-centered’ and sustainable. Such objectives have always been expected in education, especially in the way the workforce is trained. Leveraging on prior research which was done by a team from Pasadena City College (PCC) and UC Irvine, we have formed a bi-coastal collaborative, including Mercer County Community College (MCCC) and Princeton University, to expand and