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For those of you who couldn’t make it to PLM Connection last month, Bill Boswell’s shared some great academic stories in his keynote presentation. Spoiler alert: the answer to What Has Red Arms, Green Wheels and Defies Gravity is TOMORROW\u2019S WORKFORCE<\/STRONG>.
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Catch the video replay and key highlights below.<\/P> For those of you who couldn’t make it to PLM Connection last month, Bill Boswell’s shared some great academic stories in his keynote presentation. Spoiler alert: the answer to What Has Red Arms, Gree…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102,1],"tags":[19],"industry":[],"product":[226,319,326],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-academic","product-nx","product-solid-edge","product-teamcenter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Bill highlighted how STEM education plays a key role in the manufacturing renaissance underway.
He shared the story of Daniel and the senior design project atRose-Hulman Institute of Technology<\/A>, that changed the lives of everyone involved.
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Bill noted that we still face millions of manufacturing jobs worldwide unfilled due to a growing skills gap. So he asked: \u201cwhere will you find your next generation of employees?\u201d
He highlighted how students are tackling big issues like urban population growth and pollution. He shared stories from these key academic initiatives:
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Students are also using Siemens PLM software in solar car racing. Bill had Principia College<\/A> on stage at PLM Connection. Principia is a small private college in Illinois with less than 1,000 students. It doesn\u2019t have an engineering program but is training future engineers and computer scientists by competing in solar car races around the world. They came in third in last year\u2019s American Solar Challenge race, beating schools up to 50 times their size.
Bill moved from green academic stories to space. He shared this video from the University of Leicester.
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Bill also shared the story of Arizona State University engineering students who are building a mineral-scouting instrument for a NASA asteroid mission. For climbing rocks closer to our planet, check out the belay device students at Johannes Kepler University<\/A> in Austria built and tested:
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_2dxFIHBkGQ
We are committed to industry-focused academics programs that provide practical real-word experience, like these. We believe it is important to start early at the k-12 level to build interest in STEM.
Bill challenged the audience to partner with us on additional hands-on industry specific competitions as well as getting involved with your local K-12 schools and community colleges. We have resources to help all ages develop into the next generation of designers, engineers and computer scientists.
For additional coverage of Bill\u2019s presentation, see Digital Manufacturing Report: Siemens to Manufacturing a Skilled Workforce<\/A> and ConnectPress: PLM World: Siemens PLM Connection Tuesday Keynote<\/A>.
Let us know of any great student stories near you.
– Dora
P.S. Special thanks to PLM World<\/A> for their support of academia. At PLM Connection<\/A>, attendees entered a raffle for a Cube 3D printer<\/A> donated by PLM World. Entry forms asked for volunteers to get involved in STEM programs. Thank you to all who volunteered! We were honored to get this comment on the entry form from a Purdue University student \u201cSiemens is the model for educational partnership! Bar none!\u201d Thank you Amy \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"