Educating workers for the future
20 Jul 2015
News, Economic Development
In Northwestern Wisconsin, a serious shortage of engineers prompted three University of Wisconsin system schools—Stout, Eau Claire and River Falls—to form a unique collaboration called the Northwest Wisconsin Engineering Consortium.
The overarching goal of the Consortium is to graduate more engineers who are willing to stay in the local area. “There’s a great unmet need of almost 600 unfilled mechanical engineers in northwest Wisconsin and nearly as many unfilled electrical engineering positions,” says Robert Meyer, UW-Stout chancellor.
UW-Stout has a phenomenal engineer job placement rate of 100 percent! Find out more about the Consortium’s proactive plan. http://ow.ly/Opnp2
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On June 24, a diverse group met at University of Wisconsin-Stout for the rollout of the Northwestern WI Collaborative for STEM. A group of well over 100 representing the fields of education, business, industry, workforce development, government and economic development, gathered at UW-Stout’s Jarvis Hall to address the need more...
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