An October 2023 Medius survey found that 69 percent of U.S. manufacturers have started to reshore and 93 percent plan to increase their pace of reshoring. To make that happen, we need a much larger and stronger skilled workforce.
Chesterton’s Fence serves as a symbolic reminder that what may appear unnecessary or obsolete at first glance may have a purpose integral to the system.
The BattChallenge tasks 12 universities, along with their vocational school partners, to design, build, test and integrate an advanced lithium-ion battery into a Stellantis electric vehicle.
Manufacturers’ ability to create jobs in the United States, invest in communities and compete in the global economy is threatened by recent tax policy changes that make it more costly to perform research, buy machinery and finance capital investments.
Since the BIL passed, state and local capital investment has rebounded and returned to pre-pandemic levels. The two-year increase in state and local capital investment as a share of state and local spending—1.6 percentage points—is the largest since 1979.
Developing the next generation of manufacturing engineers requires new types of hands-on education. That’s why Purdue Polytechnic’s School of Engineering Technology (SoET) recently built a state-of-the-art facility that features cutting-edge production equipment.