Industrial Engineering: Research Guide

A strong, skilled workforce is key to reshoring and manufacturing growth. This new series explores the careers of manufacturing leaders.

Preparing young people to fill in-demand positions in the manufacturing sector will strengthen our economy, industry, and individual communities. That’s exactly what IMTS and its partners did during the Smartforce Student Summit at IMTS 2024.

A strong, skilled workforce is key to reshoring and manufacturing growth. This new series explores the careers of manufacturing leaders.

As today’s youth shows an increasing interest in skilled trade and technical careers, the Smartforce Student Summit at IMTS 2024 is an immersive experience designed to inspire students to seek a career pathway in manufacturing.

Wisconsin's Fab Lab Grant Program funds school districts to purchase advanced manufacturing technology. Since 2015, it has provided $4.5 million to 118 districts.

For a view of the STEM classroom of the future  and to learn about careers available today,  educators, school administrators, students, and parents can visit the Smartforce Student Summit at IMTS 2024, which runs Sept. 9-14 at Chicago’s McCormick Place.

A small manufacturer in North Carolina doesn’t have a labor shortage problem because it taps into an often-overlooked workforce: the visually impaired. Learn how IFB Solutions trains and employs people who are blind for manufacturing and assembly work.

Today’s manufacturing technology makes it easier for companies to hire more people with disabilities, a talent pool of more than 10.7 million people. Learn how GenMet reduced barriers for people in wheelchairs and with intellectual disabilities.

As someone who has spent 47 years working in manufacturing technology, I experienced firsthand, as you likely have, our industry’s impact on the prosperity of individuals and our local communities. I’m grateful AMT and IMTS...

It’s play time! FIRST Robotics teams from Milwaukee-area high schools teamed up to adapt toys for kids with disabilities. Using the technical skills developed in FIRST Robotics, the teens are making play time accessible for all.

To help celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, AMT and IMTS are shining the spotlight on three equipment manufacturers training the workforce of the future through their apprenticeship programs: Okuma, Schunk, and United Grinding.

To help celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, AMT and IMTS are shining the spotlight on three equipment manufacturers training the workforce of the future through their apprenticeship programs: Okuma, Schunk, and United Grinding.

In addition to building competition robots, students on the FIRST Penn Robotics team are also dedicated to crafting adaptive technology to help children with disabilities like this Hulk costume for a boy with a wheelchair.

Manufacturers tap into hidden talent by hiring people with disabilities, like The Uniquely Abled Project, connecting autism spectrum individuals with machinist roles.

AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology and SME announced a strategic partnership today, making bigger strides together toward solving North America’s manufacturing workforce challenges.

By walking, running, and biking in the Miles for Manufacturing 5K, leaders at The MFG Meeting 2023 raised more than $17,500 to fuel the future of manufacturing education.

Meet more women who are making manufacturing move. This time, we’re focusing on additive manufacturing and meeting women who fell into the industry by chance and are now changing what’s achievable.

In the face of adversity, remarkable stories of positive and powerful change often emerge. IMTS+ presents the inspiring journey of Andrew Crowe, the founder of The New American Manufacturing Renaissance, in Season Three of “Profiles in Manufacturing,” ...

The 2023 MFG Meeting provided a unique opportunity for manufacturing technology companies to address the industry-wide concern about the skills gap, education, while talent experts discussed the importance of filling and retaining skilled labor through...

Given current economic conditions compared to where they were forecast to be at this point, this article will look at how the manufacturing employment landscape has changed and what it has meant for orders of manufacturing technology ...

During our lifetimes, technologies evolve or change completely, and they are changing evermore rapidly these days as smart, digital manufacturing technologies become more widely adopted. As a result, it is now more important than ever that humans ...

AMT recently hosted our first-ever Tech Invitational competition at our McLean, Virginia, headquarters. If you’re interested in checking out your community’s local talent, consider hosting an event like this with your local FIRST or other STEM programs.

The MFG Meeting provided nearly 400 attendees with actionable insights on economic political, demographic, social, educational, and technological issues, while social and networking events promoted collaboration.