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Smartforce
Mar 04, 2020
Industry 4.0 in career and technical education
Smartforce Development recently attended the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Workforce Development Institute (WDI) Annual Conference on Amelia Island, Fla. The most common thread running throughout the conference workshop sessions,...
Smartforce
Jan 10, 2020
New education strategies needed for a new decade
You might remember a move toward open classrooms in the 1970s. That proved to be a failed experiment due to lacking adequate structure for students and teachers alike. Today, in a few states, we are seeing similar experiments happening again with...
Smartforce
Jan 10, 2020
Public-private and university partnerships advance product development and solutions
How can manufacturing technology companies find potential partners and other resources to advance their capabilities to develop innovative new products and technologies cost effectively? You don’t need to go it alone and hire all the...
Technology
Dec 12, 2019
Advancing MFG education with augmented reality and virtual reality
As manufacturers continue to recognize the applications and financial impact of transformative technologies, these same technologies are evolving our STEM classrooms and the way we train our workforce...
Smartforce
Dec 12, 2019
Technical education and the impact of transformative technologies
During the Smartforce Student Summit at IMTS 2018, AMT made a point of bringing in exhibitors who would show schools, educators, and students our industry's vision of the manufacturing technology classroom of the future....
Smartforce
Oct 23, 2019
Manufacturing Day brings manufacturing to the community
Held annually on the first Friday in October, MFG Day took place on Oct. 4 throughout North America. It is designed to show students, educators, job seekers, elected officials, community leaders, and others the current state of manufacturing processes...
Technology
Oct 22, 2019
Education and workforce development in additive manufacturing
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been advancing at such a rapid pace in the last few years that the ecosystem of schools that teach AM programs and grant individual students AM credentials, certificates, and degrees has been in catch-up mode...
Technology
Sep 11, 2019
Back to school
With the back-to-school buzz of the past few weeks, I am reminded that IMTS has been fostering positive perceptions about careers in manufacturing to students for many years. From the early years as more of a science fair than trade show, to the renewed...
Smartforce
Aug 08, 2019
Philanthropy alone can't fix student loans
By now, I’m sure that everyone has heard about the billionaire philanthropist Robert Smith, who pledged, during his commencement speech, to erase the student loan debt of the 2019 graduating class of Morehead State University. A noble and jaw-dropping...
Smartforce
Aug 08, 2019
Minding the gap: how hiring veterans combats the technical skills shortage
The global talent crunch is becoming more evident than ever in the manufacturing industry. A recent report reveals that the U.S. manufacturing industry may reach a shortfall of 2.4 million workers by 2028. For the United States, the report attributes...
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