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SME is unleashing its breadth and depth of manufacturing content into a powerful, user-friendly, 24-7 online resource. Everything you want to know about manufacturing is available when you want it, where you want it.

NOW AVAILABLE! The former Tool & Manufacturing Engineer's Handbook (TMEH) has been digitized and is now available in a new peer-reviewed and validated WIKI environment.

SME in the News

May 2013

CIM: Deconstructing the Budget

April 2013

Training Magazine: Drilling Down Into the Skills Gap
Plastics News: Training shouldn't be one-size-fits-all
Huffington Post: We Know Where the Jobs Are

March 2013

PEM Magazine: Federal Budget Boosts Canadian Manufacturing, Economic Competitiveness

February 2013

Manufacturing News: Transform American Education and Transform the American Economy
IMT Machining Journal: SME Partners with the Military to Help Veterans Succeed in Manufacturing

December 2012

Cutting Tool Engineering Magazine: Morris University

November 2012

Industry Week: Workforce: Siemens Introduces E-learning to its Charlotte Training Options

October 2012

Crain's Chicago Business: Skilled labor shortage hobbles Illinois manufacturers
Material Handling & Logistics: Could High Energy Costs Solve Manufacturing's Talent Challenge?
LA Business Journal: Education Key to Getting Aerospace Off Ground
Bloomberg Businessweek: Caterpillar's Worker Hunt Means Welders Top Banking Pay
Marketplace At time of joblessness, some jobs go begging PDF Recording (mp3)

September 2012

The Atlantic: Solving the Manufacturing Skills Gap

August 2012

Automation World: Educating and Training in the Industrial Workforce
InTech: Closing the manufacturing skills gap

July 2012

Stars and Stripes: Army launches pilot to get civilian certifications for its engineers
Forbes.com: Army veterans start training for manufacturing jobs
Detroit News: Pilot program to train ex-soldiers for manufacturing jobs
IndustryWeek: Opportunities Abound in Aerospace Manufacturing
Crain's Detroit: Growing by layers: 3-D takes manufacturing to the next level

May 2012

WNPR: Manufacturing the Future in Hartford
Forbes: Additive Manufacturing Will Change in the Next 5-10 Years

April 2012

Hartford Business Journal: Hartford to be center of U.S. manufacturing in May
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Heard Off the Street: Manufacturing jobs await skilled workers
The Hartford Business Journal: CT leading by example
Crain's Detroit Business: Companies struggle to fill jobs for skilled laborers

March 2012

Gear Solutions: Q&A with Mark Tomlinson

February 2012

89.3 KPCC: Aerospace manufacturing jobs are here, skilled workers are not
Orange County Business Journal: Manufacturing in Comeback, Faces Labor Gap at Home

December 2011

Marketplace (American Public Radio): More factories turn to automation for the night shift

October 2011

Reuters: So many US manufacturing jobs, so few skilled workers
Huffington Post: What's Being Done to Address the Lack of Skilled Workers?
AOL CareerBuilder: Not Your Father's Blue Collar Job: A Look at Skilled Workers Today

July 2011

Christian Science Monitor: American manufacturing needs skilled workers
Smart Business: What the shortage in skilled manufacturing workers means to a hungry industry

June 2011

Industry Today: Workforce Shortages: The Real Picture
IndustryWeek: Industry Applauds National Attention on Manufacturing Workforce

December 2010

Automation World: Manufacturing: Educating Today's Workforce

November 2010

Atlanta Journal Constitution Jobs available — if you've got the hi-tech skills

October 2010

Ocala Business Journal Manufacturing: The greening of the plants
Associated Press Unemployed Find Old Jobs Now Require More Skills

September 2010

PBS Nightly Business Report The Search for Skilled Labor (print)
PBS Nightly Business Report The Search for Skilled Labor (9/16/10)
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Cleveland Crain's Business Society of Manufacturing Engineers to acquire Cleveland's ToolingU

July 2010

Voice of America SME's Mark Tomlinson on Keys to Economic Vitality & Career Development

June 2010

American Machinist - Online Machine Tool Builders Collaborating for New
Trade Event
Finance.Boston.com: You May be Closer to a College Degree Than you Thought
WSMV-TV (NBC-Nashville): Bright Future for Manufacturing

May 2010

The Republican: Mass. Gov. Patrick stresses importance of manufacturing at opening of EASTEC Manufacturing Expo
WIFR: The Changing Face of Manufacturing
Fox Business Network - Online: Robotics Entrepreneur Rodney Brooks to Receive SME's Highest Honor
IndustryWeek: U.S. Department of Labor Updates Advanced Manufacturing Competency Model

April 2010

The FABRICATOR: Girls Just Want to Have Fun ... In Math and Science

March 24, 2010

LA Daily News: Students of invention: Innovators display new solutions to problems

January 24, 2010

WWJ-AM - Online: Busting Seven Big Myths about Manufacturing's Smallest Technologies

January 22, 2010

IndustryWeek: Additive Manufacturing Gets a 'Universal Language'
IndustryWeek – Online: Thought Leader – Help Wanted

January 21, 2010

Product Design & Development: From the Wright Brothers Flyer to the Dreamliner

January 20, 2010

U.S. Tech: Society of Manufacturing Engineers Elects First Woman President
Quality Digest: Company News: SME Elects First Woman as President
ThomasNet: Busting Seven Big Myths About Manufacturing's Smallest Technologies
Control Design: In Double-Digit Unemployment, Manufacturers Struggle to Find and Hire Highly Skilled Workers
Automation.com: SME elects Barbara M. Fossum president

January 19, 2010

Chem.Info: Society of Manufacturing Engineers Elects First Woman President
Adhesives & Sealants Industry: SME Elects First Woman President
Product Design & Development: Busting Seven Big Myths about Manufacturing's Smallest Technologies
Product Design & Development: Society of Manufacturing Engineers Elects First Woman President
ThomasNet: Society of Manufacturing Engineers Elects First Woman President
Nanotechnology Now: Society of Manufacturing Engineers Elects First Woman President

January 18, 2010

Snips: 2010 cannot be prosperous without manufacturing

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