More than 100 years ago, Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Technical Schools to provide practical, technical education to workers in Pittsburgh, many of whom worked in steel mills and other manufacturing operations.
While that school is now an elite university that trains leading engineers and computer scientists, manufacturing workers are still learning core skills here.
Carnegie Mellon University’s Manufacturing Futures Institute (MFI) has joined Catalyst Connection and the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute to create SkillMill19TM, a new workforce training initiative designed to upskill local workers needed in increasingly technical manufacturing jobs.
The program is designed to address critical workforce development needs by bridging skills gaps in many of the same cutting-edge technologies that our faculty are advancing through their research and education.
Gary Fedder, Faculty Director, Manufacturing Futures Institute
