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Initiative, a public-private partnership whose goal is to scale up successful local academic programs in STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “Today, manufacturing requires a much more educated workforce,” he told a group of about 100 students, teachers, par- ents and other guests. “As our ingenuity creates machines that are increasingly capable of doing more of the actual manufactur- ing, we must rethink what kinds of jobs the future holds for us. “The American workforce must not only maintain the machines, but also design and troubleshoot them,” Fleisher continued. “Program and debug them. The jobs of the future will involve a degree of the same mechanical skills of the past, but will also require much more problem-solving and critical thinking.”
He also challenged the students to think about how they could reshape the future.
“Many of us are constantly scrambling around looking to ‘plug in’ because we are almost out of power. Imagine wireless
power. Pressing a few buttons on your device that allows the device to instantly charge.”
Fleisher went on to list other futuristic ideas that have yet to be designed and assembled or put into practice: cars that fly, cures for cancer and other diseases, pizza delivery by drone, predicting tornadoes, and intergalactic commuting. “Being here has opened me up to so many different things,” said student Sopheria Ross, who’s 33 and a freshman at Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL. Sopheria was showing off a ring she had just customized with two intertwined hearts—because she’s a people person— on the front and 3D printed with the help of Josh Cramer, senior educational program officer with the SME Education Foundation. The experience was “pretty fun.”
Other IMTS Announcements
Companies unveiled a wide range of advanced new tech- nologies and made a variety of announcements at IMTS.
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