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What is Advanced Manufacturing?

According to Manufacturing.gov, advanced manufacturing is the “Use of innovative technologies to create existing products and the creation of new products. Advanced manufacturing can include production activities that depend on information, automation, computation, software, sensing, and networking.”1

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Why Choose a Career in Advanced Manufacturing?

It’s now a dynamic field full of opportunity and innovation that promises a career path and job security. Today’s facilities are safe, well-lit, ventilated, and high-tech. Completing a certificate or a degree from an advanced manufacturing program at a community college is the first step to a rewarding career in manufacturing.

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Advanced Manufacturing Programs

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Scholarships

Explore scholarship opportunities that are available to students in Advanced Manufacturing.

Student Initiatives

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The Mechanical and Manufacturing Technologies for Energy and Sustainability (MET² ) Program better prepares community college and college or university mechanical manufacturing engineering and technology students with technical, social, professional, and entrepreneurial skills required to meet today’s workforce demands.

MET²  Program provides genuine, real-world challenges or problems to fuel projects explored by self-managed
Program Teams of students. Program Teams are inter-institutional, interdisciplinary, and self-managed to capitalize on the synergy between the theoretical knowledge of university students and faculty (Partner
universities in Connecticut), complemented by the requisite hands-on technical skills of community college students and faculty (Connecticut State Community College). Program Teams will meet and conduct research culminating in a professional-level final report and presentation.

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What's Happening?

  • Advancing Manufacturing
    Advancing Manufacturing
    Thu, Jan 30
    Lawrence
    Jan 30, 2025, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Lawrence, 9 International Way, Lawrence, MA 01843, USA
    A Roadmap to Automation, Workforce Development & Technology Readiness
  • Innovations Conference
    Innovations Conference
    Sun, Mar 09
    San Antonio
    Mar 09, 2025, 7:00 PM – Mar 12, 2025, 11:00 PM
    San Antonio, 600 E Market St, San Antonio, TX 78205, USA
    This event is hosted by Alamo Colleges District.
  • Equity and Excellence
    Equity and Excellence
    Mon, Jul 14
    Denver
    Jul 14, 2025, 7:00 PM – Jul 18, 2025, 11:00 PM
    Denver, 1550 Court Pl, Denver, CO 80202, USA
    Access in Higher Education
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