Filling the Skills Gap by Educating Work-Ready Students for Manufacturing Jobs

Filling the Skills Gap by Educating Work-Ready Students for Manufacturing Jobs

Looking to bridge the skills gap in manufacturing? This post explores hands-on training programs, industry-school partnerships, and curriculum strategies designed to equip students with the practical skills needed for the factory floor.

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Collegiate Tribology Program Closes Manufacturing Skills Gap

Collegiate Tribology Program Closes Manufacturing Skills Gap

A one-of-a-kind program at Auburn is helping develop manufacturing engineers with hands-on experience that translates directly to real-world jobs. Whether it’s an airport runway, a manufacturing robot, fluid couplings, power transmission, a tile floor, human-joint replacement, hard-drive technology, or biomedical equipment, surfaces are in constant contact with each other in the mechanical world. The result is friction and wear. In fact, one fourth of the world’s manmade energy is lost to friction. Tribology is used to maintain, control, monitor, and positively manipulate friction, and studying it has the potential to make innovative contributions to industry, society, and environmental conservation.

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