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3 Workforce Development
3 Workforce Development
Pages 17-24
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A number of researchers, however, recently have expressed concerns that technological change has led to a hollowing out of middle-skill and middleclass jobs because automation has led to jobs requiring either low or no skills–or very advanced skills. Erica Fuchs of Carnegie Mellon University discussed her recent work addressing these concerns, in which she has found that advanced manufacturing jobs actually require middle-level skills rather than polarizing skill demands (and wages)
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Woodell, the institutes can create a market pull for advanced manufacturing techniques by providing education and training, 1 As described on the NextFlex website, FlexFactor is "a month-long program that exposes students to the vast range of professional opportunities within advanced manufacturing and innovation. This project-based learning approach is integrated into an existing classroom, regardless of subject, providing a complementary learning structure to support existing learning objectives.
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Kevin McComber and Nicolaus Rhenwrick, representing AIM Photonics Academy 2 and Lockheed Martin, respectively, offered evidence of successful partnering among institutes, such as AIM Photonics Academy's new 3-year partnership with Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) to establish technician certification programs in the integrated photonics space, and they explained the value of placing students and current workers in research projects and internships through collaborations between the institutes and firms.
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Dr. Hartley highlighted the positive effects of partnerships and educating manufacturing workers on companies' balance sheets, echoing Nicolaus Rhenwrick's point that firms, even large firms like Lockheed Martin, derive much return from their partnerships with the institutes in terms of employee training and credentialing.
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Responding to a question about what the institutes and MEPs are doing to prepare SMEs and the workforce for the next generation of technologies, Michael Garvey of M-7 Technologies shared an illustrative example of how his firm is using training modules to evaluate workers on their ability to handle design and technical work in anticipation of transitioning to more advanced manufacturing. Jennifer Hagan-Dier of the Tennessee MEP at the University of Tennessee said that the question of who will bear the costs for investing in workforce development is a perennial one, but small and medium-sized manufacturers themselves must realize that investing in their employees is essential to retaining them.
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Yoel Fink of AFFOA cited the importance of involving people with business backgrounds in the institute's project calls to execute unconventional business models that characterize new and innovative products coming out of its entrepreneurial member firms. An international comparison was offered by Paul Lewis of King's College, London, who discussed the U.K.'s Catapult centers and the role they play in technician skills and training there.
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As with Manufacturing USA's LIFT consortium, the proposed centers would have teams of people working with employers to incorporate new skills and training requirements into syllabi, forming an institutional mechanism for developing training courses for soon-to-be-deployed technologies. The new centers would aggregate demand for apprenticeship training, helping to bridge the workforce skills gap in the U.K.
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