Programs Promoting Engineering/Manufacturing Careers

AMC2
The Advanced Manufacturing Career Collaborative (AMC2) was established because of a shared sense of urgency concerning Southwestern PA's ability to provide a technically trained workforce in the numbers needed by the region's manufacturing sector.

American Engineering Campaign
This web page of the National Society of Professional Engineers offers fun facts about engineers, such as "What If Engineering Disappeared For a Day?".

A Sightseer's Guide to Engineering
Spotlighting how engineers improve our lives.

Be What I Want To Be
Try on a future. See what fits.

Business Champions for Workforce Development
Under grants from the Charles Stewart Mott, Ford and Lumina Foundations, the Center for Workforce Success has catalyzed business leadership in support of policies promoting accountability, affordability, access, and success of students in community colleges and the need for business to strategically invest in human capital development.

Career OneStop Career Videos
See "real people doing real work". Each career video below may be viewed using either Windows Media or RealPlayer. View over 300 videos in Spanish.

Career Podcasts
Choose from 350 different podcasts to learn more about options in 16 career fields - everything from finance and engineering to education and government. You can download these files onto your iPod or play them on your computer. Select a category and video below and then click on "Play Video." The running time of most videos is approximately 2 minutes.

Click on Careers
ClickonCareers.com connects the most progressive companies and training providers with the most qualified career-minded individuals, offering outstanding listings and superior services that help individuals find the training they need to get the career they want.

Dream It Do It Campaign
Check out Manufacturing Engineers and Manufacturing Engineering Technicians!
This resource is recommended by the SME-EF.

Engineering Education Service Center
We strive to provide information resources to promote, guide, and stimulate interest in engineering and technology. In addition, we seek to diversify the types of engineers in society by exposing large numbers of students to the capacity they will have to benefit society.
This resource is recommended by the SME-EF.

ETE
Welcome to the world of Engineering Technology Education!

GetTech!
GetTech, through its gettech.org web site and collateral materials, will help you prepare students (in fun ways) for tomorrow's great jobs.

Getsmarter.org
This site is an animated, interactive testing and learning site. Students can compare their math and science performance to other students worldwide.

Gold Collar Careers
Manufacturing is an industry full of dynamic employees that push the limits of technology. Bright individuals who understand and embrace the latest machine, electronic, computer and other technologies. Our workers are creative thinkers with applied/hands-on abilities to solve problems and get things done. Explore manufacturing and find out why our workers are in high demand and have rewarding careers.

Jobs With A Future
Do you like cars? Ever wondered where the parts for those cars come from? In Canada, more than 100,000 people are in well paid and secure careers designing and manufacturing $35 billion worth of parts for the North American automotive industry. Another 55,000 Canadians are employed in the actual making of cars and trucks. The number of automotive manufacturing jobs will grow 10% in the next few years. Automotive parts jobs lead the way, having risen by about 33% since 1992. Most parts makers plan to further expand their skilled trades workforce beyond 2003 thanks to increasing business, the need for updating to new technology, and the need to replace the thousands of workers anticipated to retire over the 10 years. Automotive Parts Manufacturing is Canada's #1 Manufacturing industry!

Kentucky Association of Manufacturers
As Kentucky's only trade association focused exclusively on the manufacturing sector, the Kentucky Association of Manufacturers is the only group...the only Kentucky association...that can provide the experienced and necessary leadership for developing and executing a focused, bold and aggressive action plan to advance Kentucky manufacturing.

National Engineers Week
This website offers year-round resources for educators and students, including engineer profiles, library and science centers and activities, case studies and more. This resource is recommended by the SME-EF.

New Jersey Next Stop…Your Career
Manufacturing - Jersey makes, the world takes. New Jersey’s history is rooted in manufacturing products, everything from food to chemical production in Northern New Jersey, to glass manufacturing in Southern New Jersey. Manufacturing processes have become much more high-tech and workers are increasingly likely to spend their days monitoring a computerized control center instead of manually operating cumbersome tools or machines. But like everywhere else, New Jersey’s economy is becoming much more dependent on services and information technology, rather than goods manufacturing, much of which is moving overseas. That said, New Jersey won’t be losing touch with its heritage anytime soon.

Next Generation Manufacturing - Manufacturing Careers Campaign
The Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing addresses the need for highly skilled workers in the new manufacturing workplace by building programs that provide resources to educators and students interested in learning new technologies in manufacturing. The Center is directed by the Connecticut College of Technology (COT), a virtual organization representing technology curriculum geared toward engineering and technician training offered at Connecticut's 12 community colleges.

Northwest Indiania's Career Exploration
Northwest Indiana's Career Exploration was developed by Goal Team 2 of the Community Workforce Compact.

Manufacturers' Association of South Central Pennsylvania
The Manufacturers' Association of South Central Pennsylvania (MASCPA) is a regional employers' organization with more than 350 member companies located within South-Central Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland. Founded with the strength of the region's industrial roots in 1906, we are an advocate for manufacturing and related industries. Offering two types of memberships to the community: General - manufacturing, and Associate - non-manufacturing, allows us to work with many types of organizations.

Makin' It In Michigan
High school students rely on input and advice from teachers, guidance counselors and parents to help make decisions about their career choices. The Makin’ It In Michigan program is designed to provide useful information about one specific career area — manufacturing — that includes a wide range of jobs, like scientists, engineers, marketing professionals, accountants, lawyers and much, much more.

Minnesota Manufacturers: Looking for Workers
While one might think the slumping economy would be the top worry for manufacturers in Minnesota right now, many companies say their biggest concern is the lack of skilled workers available to make their products. This site is a help wanted for Minnesota manufacturers.

Positively Minnesota Marketing Partnership
The Positively Minnesota Marketing Partners are available to answer your questions about Minnesota's business environment from a variety of perspectives.  Contact them directly to find a new site for business expansion, or meet them at industry and economic development conferences held in Minnesota and throughout the United States.

SMC Business Councils
SMC Business Councils is the Premier Business Association in Pennsylvania. SMC can help you get connected to people, programs, and services you need to succeed in today's rapidly changing market place. We serve smaller businesses of all kinds - our 5,000+ members include some of Pennsylvania's leading smaller businesses.

Shop Rat
We are the skilled men and woman that build the world around us. We are the creators of everything man made. Because of our great contributions, our society enjoys many comforts. Without the skills of our talented group, life as we know it would not exist.

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center
The Sloan Career Cornerstone Center is a non-profit resource center for those exploring career paths in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computing, and healthcare. Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made the resources on this site possible. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation.

Welding So Hot, It's Cool
Industry specialists know welding is a great way to get where you're going. These videos translate this message to the high school students planning their future.

Women in Engineering Links at engineeringedu.com
A state by state list of women in engineering programs.