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September 13, 2018

Small Businesses Gain Entry into Photonics with a New Kind of Partner

The photonics market is crucial to a number of emerging and evolving industries that depend on its rapid growth and innovation. Forecasts predict that innovations in photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology will drive industry growth from $10 billion to over $100 billion by 2025. To successfully reach the industries that will benefit from this growth, such as autonomous vehicles and healthcare, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need the ability to collaborate and gain access to resources that would otherwise be out of their reach.

September 11, 2018

New York Times

Photonics, Workforce

Teaming Up to Get Workers Ready for Technology of the Future

Shawn Reese is the perfect example of the complicated route that can lie ahead for workers of the future — but also for the opportunities that are emerging.

He graduated from Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, Mass., in May with a degree in electrical engineering, a field that — like most — is undergoing rapid change. A degree today is unlikely to be enough preparation for the challenges of tomorrow. So what is a student, a university, an industry, to do?

September 1, 2018

Inc.

Composites, Energy, Manufacturing, Process Intensification

This Little Known Program at the Department of Energy Is Helping to Create a New Future In Manufacturing

Another area in which the AMO supports private industry is through taking a leading role in consortia, such as the Manufacturing Institutes that were set up to to give American companies a leg up in advanced areas such as clean energy, composite materials and chemical process intensification.

August 30, 2018

Triangle Business Journal

Education, Electronics, Power Electronics, Workforce

'Invisible Revolution' of Engineers Flock to N.C. State for PowerAmerica

Dozens of executives, engineers and researchers crowded into North Carolina State University’s Hunt Library early Thursday, part of what Cree CEO Gregg Lowe called “an invisible revolution.”

“We’re the folks behind the curtain… revolutionizing a whole bunch of industries,” Lowe told the crowd from the stage.

Lowe and his cohorts were gathered for the annual show-and-tell workshop of a Department of Energy-funded consortium, dubbed PowerAmerica [a Manufacturing USA institute].

August 13, 2018

Pittsburgh Technology Council

Automation, Robotics

A.R.M.’D For The Next Wave: Advancing Robotics in Manufacturing

We know two things for certain about U.S. manufacturing. The industry must become more advanced to stay competitive globally, and manufacturers need to keep employees employable by educating them to keep up to date with technological advances.