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    Photonics Career Videos
Students searching for careers need to understand what they may be doing in the workforce. Students are also motivated and focused when they can identify with a role model and understand why they have to learn certain areas of mathematics, science and technology. We asked our video subjects who they worked for, what they do, how they became interested in photonics and who helped or encouraged them.
03.01.2010 Schools and Programs
    Small company cashing in on an assist from a big business
Locally based M2 Global Technology Ltd. is banking on a growing book of business to propel its growth over the next three years. Douglas Carlberg, president and CEO of M2 Global, says as those orders begin to come in the door, the company wants to be ready. Part of that game plan calls for expanding the company's North Side facilities located at 5714 Epsilon. The company currently occupies a 25,000-square-foot facility that houses all of its operations — electronics manufacturing, welding, mechanical assembly and sheet-metal services.
03.01.2010 Companies, People, and Organizations
    Three Fairmont students win Ohio World Design competition
Fairmont seniors Brandon Wehner, Brian Catrine, and Bill Timmer proved themselves to be leaders on Wednesday, Feb. 17, when they beat out 49 other Ohio teams to become the winners of the Ohio Real World Design Challenge. While the competition and expectations may seem intimidating, David Lord, the students' engineering instructor, believes the students have the talent and skill necessary to bring home the national title.
02.26.2010 Schools and Programs
    Today's Manufacturing in Central Massachusetts
Watch Mass-TEC's Today's Manufacturing in Central Massachusetts on Charter TV3, Charter TV790, and Shrewsbury Cable Channel 15. Five short, "five-minute" segments include descriptions of some of today's manufacturing jobs, and Basic skills needed among today's manufacturing employees.
01.12.2010 Careers and Technologies
    Manufacturing plant tours highlight tough times, importance of industry to state's economy
Eleven manufacturers from across the state played host to New Hampshire state legislators in a series of plant tours held in late October and early November. The tours were organized by the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire, in partnership with the NH Department of Resources & Economic Development, to highlight the critical importance of advanced manufacturing and high technology to the state's economy, and to demonstrate the challenges facing this sector as it competes with businesses in other states and countries that have lower costs of doing business.
12.21.2009 Companies, People, and Organizations
    National Manufacturing Survey Results Announced
The New Hampshire Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NH MEP) today announced the results of the first national survey of world-class manufacturers, hailing the findings as valuable to both state policymakers and New Hampshire companies.
12.21.2009 Careers and Technologies
    Robotics competition for freshmen and sophomore engineering and engineering technology students
You are invited to participate in a great robotics competition for freshmen and sophomore engineering and engineering technology students!
The 12th Annual ASEE Model Design Competition will be held on June 21 in Louisville, KY, June 20 - June 23, 2010. This competition is open to 1st and 2nd year students at four and two year colleges and universities. This year's competition student teams will design and build a robot (Baseball Bot).
11.20.2009 Schools and Programs
    Minnesota students create 'super' hybrid cars
Students at six Minnesota technical colleges have spent their summer converting gas/electric hybrid cars into plug-in hybrids, dramatically increasing their fuel economy. This story was broadcast on "All Things Considered", 07/23/2009.
10.07.2009 Schools and Programs
    DTMA Bots pits student-built robots against each other
The Bots contest at the Dayton Tooling and Manufacturing Association's Advanced Manufacturing and Technology Show Thursday, Oct. 23, pitted student-built robots against each other. Teams put their remote-controlled machines on an enclosed stage at the Dayton International Airport Expo Center and sought to saw, flip or otherwise crush their opponents to a metallic pulp.
08.28.2009 Schools and Programs
    Center for Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence awards $250,000
With one in ten jobs based in manufacturing, and even more in manufacturing related areas, over 800,000 jobs or 29% of Minnesota's workforce currently supplies, builds, or designs a manufactured product. Awarded $53,947, Alexandria Technical College Customized Training Division will deliver distance-based training to over 60 technicians employed by Douglas Machine, LLC, Alexandria, MN, and Boise Paper (Boise) in International Falls. The project, titled LongWire, remotely delivers programmable logic control training on live – not simulated – industrial hardware and software. Employees are able to stay on the job site to acquire additional advanced skills.
08.26.2009 Careers and Technologies


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