Workforce Development
manufacturing education must be corrected. SME recom- mended that educators, industry, professional organizations and government work together to: 1. Attract more students into manufacturing by promot- ing the availability of creative, high-tech jobs and giving students a strong STEM foundation.
2. Articulate a standard core of manufacturing knowledge to guide the accreditation of manufacturing programs and certification of individuals.
3. Improve the consistency and quality of manufacturing curricula to better prepare students for manufacturing employment.
4. Integrate manufacturing topics into STEM education to expose more students to manufacturing concepts.
5. Develop faculty that can deliver a world-class manufactur- ing education in spite of a growing number of challenges.
6. Strategically deploy existing and new resources into STEM and manufacturing education programs.
Progress Being Made It’s difficult to believe it’s been less than a year since that report was published: Much has happened since then. Nearly every day, the news headlines trumpet reports about the challenge: Even Miss America is talking about it. Seriously: In May, Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan, who started her university career as a biomedical science student, told the Salt Lake Chamber that not enough children are being exposed to STEM fields. “We can do that by showing them the really cool careers that come out of STEM,” Hagan said, according to an ar- ticle in the Desert News. With attention like that, more and more are being exposed to the STEM possibilities, espe- cially in manufacturing. From Wentworth Institute of Technology’s new $3 million manufacturing center in Boston to a new automated manu- facturing and machining scholarship at Penn State, advanced manufacturing has moved up the nation’s priority list.
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