Educating Manufacturing Technologists to be Future Shop Floor Leaders
John Liu Director & Principal Investigator, MIT Learning Engineering and Practice Group (LEAP)
Successful technology adoption will change the nature of manufacturing work and drive demand for new competencies. How do we understand the roles that can best support advanced manufacturing? A new program from MIT aims to give shop-floor workers a ladder to become shop-floor leaders — “technologists” who bridge the gap between technicians and engineers.