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Forming Metal Heads: How To Address the Metals Casting and Forging Skills Gap
Manage episode 517815093 series 3415449
Manufacturers understand the skills gap: every day they recognize that do not have enough people or enough of the right people to execute the difficult and sometimes dirty, often dangerous tasks like pouring and forming molten materials, grinding or machining parts, treating and handling those parts, welding and finishing components and systems, etc. It’s more than a practical problem. It’s an economic and institutional crisis.
The Metallurgical Engineering Trades Apprenticeship and Learning program (METAL) established by the Dept. of Energy in 2024 is moving fast to resolve it, setting up and coordinating practical training in critical disciplines for metal casting and metal forging processes at seven universities, and drawing in fresh minds who ensure that knowledge and practical understanding continue to be available to engineers and investors in the decades ahead of us.
Mike Kubacki, project coordinator for METAL describes the program and its progress.
340 episodes
Manage episode 517815093 series 3415449
Manufacturers understand the skills gap: every day they recognize that do not have enough people or enough of the right people to execute the difficult and sometimes dirty, often dangerous tasks like pouring and forming molten materials, grinding or machining parts, treating and handling those parts, welding and finishing components and systems, etc. It’s more than a practical problem. It’s an economic and institutional crisis.
The Metallurgical Engineering Trades Apprenticeship and Learning program (METAL) established by the Dept. of Energy in 2024 is moving fast to resolve it, setting up and coordinating practical training in critical disciplines for metal casting and metal forging processes at seven universities, and drawing in fresh minds who ensure that knowledge and practical understanding continue to be available to engineers and investors in the decades ahead of us.
Mike Kubacki, project coordinator for METAL describes the program and its progress.
340 episodes
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