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School-to-Career Blog 020808

The views expressed here are Chris' and are not necessarily the same as the Wake County Public School System.

Students excell (sic) in career-tech education

link to the news article: The Livingston Community News, February 8, 2008.

Article Highlights

While the repetitious jobs once done by people on assembly lines are now being done by robots, Sean Hickman knows jobs in manufacturing are not dying out.

Every year, graduates from Hickman's Pinckney Community High School robotics classes go on to get advanced degrees and become the engineers who keep the robots working.

"Today's manufacturing jobs are highly technical and people who are skilled in automation are in high demand," he said. "If you're good, you're valuable because you keep the robots running and that keeps the plant running."

Chris' thoughts -

Jobs in the manufacturing industry have indeed changed a lot over the last few decades, but that doesn't mean that all of the manufacturing jobs have gone overseas. In fact, today's manufacturing employees need to be smarter than manufacturing employees of yesterday. They need to be able to design production lines that don't rely on a constant supply of human power, and then they need to be able to troubleshoot those automation systems when something goes awry.

It's the Career and Technical Education programs in our high schools and community colleges that are preparing the future employees for 21st-Century manufacturing.

 

Well, at least that's what I'm thinking!
Chris Droessler

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