You could say Keegan Stewart’s love for advanced manufacturing started about a half-dozen years ago with a train ride to Chicago. Then a junior at Alexandria-Monroe High School, Keegan struck up a conversation with a fellow passenger who happened to work in robotics. “It was very eye-opening,” said Keegan, who is now pursuing a graduate […]
Initially, then-high-schooler Jacob Coffing saw signing up for machine trades simply as a way to “get out of class.” Later he realized it was the first step toward his career in advanced manufacturing … a career that has evolved into a passion. “Manufacturing is more than just a job for me,” says the graduate of […]
When Marideth Boswell was a freshman in high school, she needed a class to fill a gap in her schedule. On a whim, she chose “Introduction to Engineering." That whim has led to opportunities she couldn’t have imagined and a career path that, at the time, she didn’t know existed. “I just loved the way […]
It’s how internships are supposed to work. A high school student takes an internship at a company, grabbing the chance to learn about the company and its industry while getting some real-world experience. Meanwhile, the company introduces itself and its industry to a member of the future workforce, assesses whether the student’s a good worker […]
When Morgan Montgomery first started thinking about what she might do as a career, the job she has now wasn’t even on her radar. Nonetheless, the Continuous Improvement Leader at Rolls-Royce feels like she’s exactly where she’s supposed to be. She did take an indirect route to get here. When she was a student at […]
Ankit Dhandhania didn’t grow up dreaming specifically of becoming an engineer tasked with injecting technology into the world of manufacturing. But his path to that role probably couldn’t have been any more direct if he had planned it all along. Now a Manufacturing Systems Manager for Global Manufacturing at Cummins Inc., Dhandhania believes his experience […]
It’s no longer unusual, in this era of automation, to see humans and robots working side by side. Enter: Collaborative robots (cobots), which as the name implies work in collaboration with humans. Cobots are gaining momentum with advanced manufacturing and logistics companies because they enhance human work – freeing employees up to do things that […]
It took a global pandemic to open most people’s eyes to the importance of the supply chain. For Michelle Harvey, it took a coffee mug. Now a Master Scheduler for Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Harvey entered Indiana State University (ISU) in 2014 knowing she wanted to pursue a business degree, but she wasn’t […]
Megan McHale, a 2020 graduate of Purdue University, shares her story of launching a career at Caterpillar in Lafayette, Ind., in their rotational development program. It’s an opportunity for new college graduates to gain a wide variety of experience in their first few years of post-graduate employment – and it’s becoming popular at many manufacturing […]
Terrance Harrell grew up in a family of tinkerers. Some of his earliest childhood memories are of working on cars, RVs and motorcycles with his uncle and cousins in their garage. “It was all about figuring out how things go together so we could pull them apart,” he says. His love of building and curiosity […]
