Tag: workforce development
Students Sign On for Mercedes-Benz Tech Co-op Program
Mercedes-Benz US International Inc. has teamed with Wallace State Community College, in Hanceville, Alabama, in a tech co-op program.
The first students to be accepted...
Construction Begins on Wake Tech’s Hendrick Center for Automotive Excellence
Construction begins this month on Wake Technical Community College’s new automotive training facility in North Carolina. The Hendrick Center for Automotive Excellence is named...
Executive Q&A: Oklahoma’s Jennifer Springer connects with the SAC
Oklahoma is not an automotive hub, but the state hopes to put its best foot forward toward greater involvement with the sector, sending an...
Toyota pumps money into San Antonio truck factory
Toyota announced Sept. 17 that it will invest $391 million at its San Antonio, Texas truck assembly plant. That will bring the automaker’s total...
Supplier Profile: A True Learner’s Permit
The dated image of the coffee-fetching, errand-running college intern has been changing for years, but at ZF Chassis Systems in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that stereotype...
Prepping the Workforce of the Future
On a windy day in late April, more than 200 people crowded into the new Automation and Robotics Training Center (ARTC) next to Motlow...
Ilker Subasi: Mentoring, coaching and training
Curious and always questioning “why” -- “That’s my generation: Generation Y,” Ilker Subasi jokes.
Subasi was working in the Volkswagen press shop in Hanover, Germany,...
Automotive Advanced Technology Summit
Auto manufacturing technology is speeding ahead so quickly that it risks leaving some in the industry lagging behind, according to speakers at the Automotive...
Best Practices: Alabama changing the game in workforce development
Jeff Lynn, vice chancellor of workforce and economic development, Alabama Community College System, speaks with an enthusiasm that’s contagious. He’s talking about the dynamic...
Kudos: Hands on and real world
As a mother and a businesswoman, Terri Seese took a good look at education, and saw a gap. A few years later, she’s working...