{"id":20367,"date":"2019-01-11T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=20367"},"modified":"2019-01-11T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:44:11","slug":"closing-the-skills-gap-in-advanced-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/closing-the-skills-gap-in-advanced-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the Skills Gap in Advanced Manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Advanced-Manufacturing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20368\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Advanced-Manufacturing.jpg\" alt=\"Two engineering students working on electrical component of a machine in laboratory.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Advanced-Manufacturing.jpg 800w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Advanced-Manufacturing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Advanced-Manufacturing-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Advanced-Manufacturing-705x471.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>A<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0skills gap<\/span> <span class=\"s3\">that could leave as many as 2 million manufacturing jobs unfilled by 2025 is one of the driving forces behind a new Clemson program that matches graduate students with technical college students on an assembly line built for research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">The new program, THINKER, short for Technology and Human Integrated Knowledge, Education and Research, is backed by a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation and is aimed at preparing leaders who can help close the skills gap in advanced manufacturing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Economic expansion and baby boomer retirements will likely create a need to fill 3.4 million manufacturing jobs in the nation between 2015 and 2025, but only 1.4 million are likely to be adequately filled, according to a study by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">It\u2019s a crucial issue for South Carolina, where the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis says manufacturing accounts for 17 percent of the economy \u2014 more than 50 percent higher than the national average.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">The THINKER program will equip students with both technical skills and \u201csoft skills,\u201d such as communication and collaboration. Its graduates could help attract new businesses to South Carolina and supply businesses already in the state with the talent they need to grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">While undergraduates and technical college students will be involved, the National Science Foundation funding is reserved for graduate students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering and math.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">The THINKER program\u2019s impact could quickly ripple through the broader regional economy. Studies show that every job in manufacturing creates another 2.5 jobs in local goods and services, and for every $1 invested, another $1.37 in additional value is created in other sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0skills gap that could leave as many as 2 million manufacturing jobs unfilled by 2025 is one of the driving forces behind a new Clemson program that matches graduate students with technical college students on an assembly line built for research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1860,3337],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-these-hills","tag-manufacturing","tag-winter-2019-in-these-hills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Advanced-Manufacturing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20367"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}