NCNGM Group

The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing is pleased to share resources with our community on opportunities in technical education. One such opportunity has come for donated equipment for Community and Technical Colleges. Please feel free to reach out to J. Bryan Sellars, Manager, Strategy & Business Exploration at SICK Sensor Intelligence, for more information at bryan.sellars@sick.com.

SICK’s expansive product portfolio includes:

Industrial Sensors

Safety Solutions

Automatic Identification

Vision

Calling All Industry Partners!

We really need you to help guide the work of the college programs that the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing (NCNGM) is serving! Please join us virtually on Friday, December 12, 10:00 am -12:00 pm Eastern Time to discuss several lists of future knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) that you think are needed for graduates from 2-year colleges in the following programs:

Smart Automation, Multi-craft Industrial Maintenance Technician, and Mechatronics.

Smart Automation and Mechatronics are reasonably self-explanatory, and Multi-craft has a broad focus to enable a graduate to perform industrial systems maintenance , to install, repair, maintain, and test a wide variety of industrial systems.

These lists of knowledge, skills, and abilities have already been validated by college teams, and we want to post them for national use after you help us to review them for national applicability. We will be using a variation…