What do you use that hasn’t been manufactured? “In other words, the manufacturing worker of the future is more likely to have a graduate degree and wear a suit or a labcoat to work than to have only a high school education and carry a lunch pail.” Neil Irwin of the Washington Post Making Stuff What is your image of manufacturing? MoManufacturingWINs Precision Machining Technology ME 100 – Measurement, Materials & Safety

Engineering $50 - $90K Chemical Electrical Environmental Industrial Mechanical Petroleum Semiconductor Manufacturing Technician $30 - $50K Avionics CAD/CAM Electrical Inspector CNC Programming Assembler Safety Trades $25 - $45K Patternmaker Machine Setter Machinist Welder Tool and Die Maker

Engineering Bachelors or Masters Degree Technician/ TechnologistAssociates Degree or Bachelors Machinist/Tool and Die Trade School or Associates Degree Welder Trade School or Associates Degree Other MFG RelatedTrade School or Union Apprenticeship Program Educational Requirements... Nearly 30 percent of Americans with associate’s degrees now make more than those with bachelor’s degrees, according to Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. In fact, new research into earnings shows that, on average, community-college graduates right out of school, as a group, make more than graduates of four-year universities. Money Magazine February 2013Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.

Emerging (or at least newer/non-traditional) Fields in Manufacturing... Non Traditional Additive Manufacturing Nano Technology Semiconductor Sustainable Health and Safety

Where do manufacturing people work? Rapid Development Services Hussmann Hydromat Boeing Seiler Industrial Steel Fabricators Patriot LMI GKN Bachman Wainwright Industries Watlow Hunter Engineering Sunnen Rug Doctor National Cart American Railcar CR Metal Products Marquette Tool & Die Mueller Machine Tyco Endoscopy Development Co. Beck Automation Control Tech Automation McEnery Automation Central Pattern Emerson Precision Prototype and MFG Innoventor Planet Tool MEMC Alpha Packaging

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