WKMS (Taylor) - A five and a half million dollar National Science Foundation grant is enabling a multi-college, industry-partnered collaborative across several states to produce the manufacturing worker of tomorrow. Kentucky's Community and Technical College is one school system spearheading the initiative and its Madisonville campus is already showing results.
More than 2,100 students are enrolled in manufacturing-related programs in community colleges across the Commonwealth. Parker expects Kentucky to emerge as an industry leader in manufacturing, as the college system continues to help produce multi-skilled technicians for globally narrowing workforce lines.
Monday, November 23, 2009
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It will be interesting to see how well students educated to be "multi-skilled technicians" do when they arrive in the job market. Too much may be expected from a two-year education program where the curricula is stretched so thin. We know from experience that 16-18 credit hours (one semester)are needed to prepare a student in one spreciality area.
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