WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass., March 17, 2010 — Innovation will be a key theme at EASTEC 2010, the largest annual precision manufacturing event on the East Coast. The three-day event will kick off on May 25 with an Executive Breakfast where Chris Trimble, the author of 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators, will present “The Innovation Imperative and Revitalizing the U.S. Economy." EASTEC 2010 will also launch Innovations Theater this year where manufacturers will introduce new products and services introduced since last year’s event. Over 90 manufacturers have indicated they will be showcasing new products at EASTEC 2010 including Massachusetts-based Citizen Machinery America, Inc. More

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, March 16, 2010 — The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) in partnership with the Canadian Machine Tool Distributors Association (CMTDA), Canadian Tooling and Machining Association (CTMA), Canadian Wind Energy Association (CANWEA), Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME) are set to launch the 2010 edition of the Montreal Manufacturing Technology Show (MMTS), May 17-19, 2010. More

DEARBORN, Mich., March 15, 2010 — Through their continued efforts to bring manufacturing careers to the forefront of American K-12 STEM education, the SME Education Foundation has granted $815,000 to Project Lead the Way (PLTW). The funds will be used to expand the Foundation’s award-winning Gateway Academy to 300 middle schools located throughout the U.S. Designed to prepare 6th – 8th grade students for pre-engineering and technology based coursework, the one week summer camp experience is unlike any other and introduces students to a learning experience based on imagination, innovation and discovery. More

DEARBORN, Mich., March 10, 2010—According to recent news reports, manufacturing is showing clear signs of rebounding. Manufacturing’s other good news: Eight game-changing innovations are about to enhance production on the factory floor. More

DEARBORN, Mich., March 4, 2010 — This is not your father’s “shop class” but rather learning a series of interrelated activities and operations that involve product design, planning, producing, materials control, quality assurance, management, and the marketing of that product. In executing its master plan for building a technically-skilled workforce, the SME Education Foundation is raising the bar for high school students with a $175,000 in funding for the introduction of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) Centers at 400 Project Lead The Way (PLTW) schools across the country while engaging industry partners and SME Chapters. More

DEARBORN, Mich., March 3, 2010 — Energy is Matt Garran’s forte. A supply chain manager for the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), Garran will offer insights on how manufacturing companies can grow in the renewable energy and wind industry at WESTEC 2010, Thursday, March 25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. More

DEARBORN, Mich., March 2, 2010 — Jump-starting tomorrow’s global manufacturing leaders has parents, teachers, businesses and community groups in Eagle River, Wis. collaborating with the SME Education Foundation and partner, Project Lead The Way (PLTW) in bringing the Gateway Academy and its world of engineering summer camps to Northland Pines High School. More

DEARBORN, Mich. February 23, 2010 — Technology that enables surgeons to make custom-fitted brain plates in a hospital setting, car enthusiasts to produce obsolete missing parts in their own garage, athletic trainers to fabricate boots that fit the special needs of a competitive skier and movie studios to create imaginary worlds inhabited by new forms of life was once the purview of science fiction. Today, these kinds of applications can be seen at RAPID 2010 and 3D IMAGING Conference and Exposition, a multi-day event organized by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), May 18–20 at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, Calif. More

CHICAGO, Ill. DEARBORN, Mich., February 22, 2010 — We are pleased to announce the winners of the Third Italian Machine Tool Technology Awards (IMTTA). They are: Benjamin Rainwater and Andrew Kaufman at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.; Jacob Davis and Evan Hoglund at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, S.D., and Nicholas Grell and Levi Lentz at San Diego State University, San Diego, Calif. They were selected as students with the best papers and have been awarded a two-week trip to Italy March 13 – 27, 2010 visiting top Italian companies in the machine tool industry and taking part in an advanced international engineering program offered by Politecnic University of Milan, Italy. More

DEARBORN, Mich., February 17, 2010 — The Gateway Academy, where 6th – 8th grade students in 28 states are being introduced to robotics, eco-design and aeronautics, has been selected as a winner of the sixth annual Progressive Manufacturing 100 Awards, selected by Managing Automation Media, a Thomas Publishing Company, LLC publication. More

DEARBORN, Mich., February 16, 2010 — Aerospace consultant Richard Aboulafia and Richard Scofield, responsible for bringing the F-117 stealth fighter to reality, will kick off Aerospace Industry & Association Day, Tuesday, March 23 at WESTEC 2010, an event organized by The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). More

DEARBORN, Mich., February 12, 2010 — Tomorrow’s global leaders will have to be tech-savvy and ready for advanced manufacturing jobs requiring skills in electronics, computers, software and automation. Continuing its mission to encourage young people to focus their education on science, technology, engineering and math, the SME Education Foundation is introducing Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) courses at 400 Manufacturing Education Centers across the country. The Foundation will sponsor the course at pre-existing partner schools in Lee's Summit, Mo., and Charlotte, N.C. More

DEARBORN, Mich., February 12, 2010 — In continuing its mission to introduce young people to exciting careers in science, technology and engineering, the SME Education Foundation is supporting the celebration of National Engineers Week – February 15-21 with the production and distribution of a new video, “Innovate: All Systems Go.” The video is being distributed to school boards through the National School Boards Association and to 1,150 Project Lead The Way middle school instructors. More

DEARBORN, Mich., February 9, 2010 — The “Great Recession” was a wake up call for manufacturers lulled into a sense of security by years of economic boom. Like the economy itself, manufacturing stands at an abyss of uncertainty. In the past is a manufacturing industry once revered as the backbone of our economy. Ahead lies an expanse of opportunity for manufacturers who are ready to lead this century’s new industrial revolution. More

DEARBORN, Mich., February 8, 2010 — Planning for the future has paid off for the SME Education Foundation as it celebrates thirty years of collaboration with industry and academic partners in furthering science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. This year, the Foundation will be announcing major investments in manufacturing centers at high schools around the country, scholarships for high-achieving students, and addressing the tattered image of manufacturing with a campaign focused on young people in grades 11-14 for careers in advanced manufacturing. More

DEARBORN, Mich., February 4, 2010 — The Society of Manufacturing Engineers announced today the winners of this year’s Award of Merit. More

DEARBORN, Mich., February 3, 2010 — It’s been said that “invention is the talent of youth...” This is particularly true of several of the winners of the 2010 Society of Manufacturing Engineers Richard E. Morley Outstanding Young Manufacturing Award who are being honored for among other accomplishments inventions or patents. More