Yesterday, I shared Bill Boswell’s Crisis in Manufacturing presentation from PLM Connection. In the middle of his presentation was this cute video on the STEM skills gap. It was a TV spot fo…
Today this tweet from Manufacturing Executive caught my eye on the #workforce Twitter stream: Chris Chiappinelli’s blog post, Attacking the Manufacturing Workforce Issue, highlights workforc…
I’ve been spotlighting future engineers to show you some of the great work student engineers are doing. At PLM Connection, surrounded by 1,800 folks who pursued careers in the engineering industry, I…
Meet Tom Lockwood, a student engineer turned real-life engineer through AESSEAL’s pioneering apprentice program. Young engineers like Tom in industry-academic programs like AESSEAL’s help close the c…
Those are Kevin Devine’s hands showing a tool changer rack his students designed. Kevin, an associate professor at Illinois State University, presented last week at PLM Connection on using NX in…
Joe Vanstrom says his job as program chair and industrial technology instructor is “a dream come true.” The 6’6″ former Iowa State offensive lineman stood a bit taller than most of the attendees at l…
Little did Octavio Heredia know when he was doing software engineering for distance learning years ago that one day similar work would take him all the way to Vietnam. He is pictured above getti…
It’s that time of year when I’m booking my boys into summer camps. After the FIRST Robotics Competition, they are definitely signed up for a robotics camp. There are a lot of great summer programs fo…
By now you may have heard we had a unique keynote presentation Tuesday at PLM Connection. Typically customers speak about what is happening in their business and how they are apply PLM technology to …