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Thinking about taking ISA's CAP exam? Here's something that might move you over the edge on that. #pauto #isa

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Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 16:02.

ISA is offering the CAP study guide free to people who register to take the CAP exam:

Dear Automation Professional,

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Another Automation company does right by STEM #pauto

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Submitted by waltboyes on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 17:26.

Please take notice of another good deed by an automation vendor. We need everybody to jump in and do things like this if we want to continue to have people who want to work in automation:

From the press release:

Phoenix Contact engineers celebrate National Engineers Week by teaching science in Pennsylvania, Michigan

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Another Big Gun Does STEM

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Submitted by nbartels on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 21:02.

Sometimes it feels to me like getting the next generation of kids interested in the mundane business of making stuff (i.e., manufacturing) is like bailing the ocean with a teaspoon. How ya gonna get 'em on the factory floor when what they really want to do is design video games, play major-league sports or be t.v. stars?

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Gilsdorf gets alumni honor from Purdue, glass ceiling for women in engineering cracks again

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Submitted by waltboyes on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 15:28.

Honeywell's "boilermaker in chief" Norm Gilsdorf is one of nine alumni receiving an award from Purdue University during Engineers' Week. One of the other alumni is another distinguished woman in engineering, Joan Miller, a senior vice president at CH2M-Hill Engineers.

Here's some of the press release from Purdue:

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DARPA says lack of scientists and engineers is a matter of national security

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Submitted by waltboyes on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 14:39.

According to Katie Drummond in her column posted January 15th on Wired.com DARPA is becoming concerned that so few wired-up, connected, with-it kids are moving into science and engineering tracks in school. And the numbers are continuing to fall.

So DARPA is asking for help.

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Seth Godin strikes again: Comfort the frightened, coach the clueless and teach the uninformed.

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Submitted by waltboyes on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 14:27.

Seth Godin's blog today talks squarely to the point of why it takes so beastly long to get corporate change....and that's not just in the automation industry either, although we're one of the worst and longest to hold on to legacy systems.

Frightened, clueless or uninformed?

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Bright Minds: Making young people interested in engineering and manufacturing

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Submitted by waltboyes on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 16:41.


MANUFACTURING PROFESSIONALS TO INTRODUCE

COOL CAREERS TO THE NEXT GENERATION


Bright Minds Mentor Program Will Take Place during RAPID 2010 and 3D IMAGING Conference & Exposition this Spring in Southern California


 

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You can't expect to change your team if you don't change yourself

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Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 16:48.

In a thought provoking article on Monday, posted on ConnectITnews.com, Jim Clemmer says "You Can't Build a Team Different from You."

He is likely right.

From the article:

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High School Engineering

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Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 22:32.

I promoted this from a comment on my post earlier about kids not wanting to go into manufacturing.

　

Hi Walt,

 

Saw your "kid's don't want to work in manufacturing" blog entry and wanted to send you some good news on this topic from my own back yard.

 

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