Business leaders can connect with entrepreneurs at one of the many Mfg Day events taking place in New Mexico during October.
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Mfg Day Engages Next Generation Workers
Young people don’t have to leave New Mexico or assume significant college loan debt to find good-paying, skilled jobs in cutting-edge industries.
New Mexico’s manufacturers want students and those new to the workforce to consider fulfilling and challenging careers in their critical industry, which contributes $4.62 billion to the state’s economy and employs 26,000 people.
To that end, dozens of businesses are inviting students and young people to tour manufacturing facilities and attend presentations as part of Manufacturing Day (aka Mfg Day) — a nationwide celebration that begins Oct. 7 and stretches through October in New Mexico.
Mfg Day NM events organized by New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (New Mexico MEP) include facility tours that demonstrate how modern manufacturing jobs are nothing like the monotonous, dead-end factory jobs of the last century. On these tours, students and the public can see how products are made or repurposed using advanced technology, artificial intelligence, and 3-D imaging.
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When students from University High and Early College High schools toured Roswell manufacturer AerSale in October 2019, it was the first time many of them had seen an Airbus jetliner, let alone boarded an aircraft.
Students viewed the jet’s cockpit, talked with maintenance professionals and learned about careers in the aviation industry, including high-paying jobs then available at AerSale, which specializes in the sale, lease and exchange of used aircraft, engines and components and offers a broad range of engineering services to commercial aircraft companies.
The students’ visit was part of Manufacturing Day, a monthlong national effort to introduce teenagers and young adults to careers in manufacturing.
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The Manufacturing Institute projects that U.S. manufacturers will need to fill 4.6 million jobs by 2028, but misperceptions about modern manufacturing could cause more than half of those positions to remain vacant. The nonprofit New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NM MEP) aims to address misperceptions among students while they are preparing themselves for college and careers by showing them opportunities in manufacturing.
That’s where Manufacturing Day comes in. Celebrated the entire month of October, the initiative highlights the changes that have occurred in the manufacturing industry and introduces students to careers in clean tech and modern manufacturing.
New Mexico Set to Celebrate Manufacturing Sector
Technology Leadership High School students during the Sandia Science and Technology Park Manufacturing Day 2015 tour
More than a third of young people studying for vocational and technical careers have no contact with potential future employers before they graduate, and only 12 percent have seen the inside of a manufacturing facility.
That conclusion, from a 2016 study by the Manufacturing Institute, lends urgency to Manufacturing Day, an annual event designed to educate the public about modern U.S. manufacturing and to attract young people to this fundamental industry.
Manufacturing Day, or Mfg Day as it’s typically known, actually lasts more than a month in New Mexico. Sponsored by the nonprofit New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NM MEP), Manufacturing Day introduces students and job seekers to manufacturing careers by inviting them to tour factories and facilities where people make things. Continue reading