Women & Minorities in Manufacturing & Engineering

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The speakers were great and the experience was one worth repeating!!

Women & Minorities in Engineering & Manufacturing

Nearly 200 people including students, teachers, and leaders of business government and labor participated in RMI’s Women and Minorities in Manufacturing and Engineering program hosted by Northrop Grumman.

"It was wonderful, and I would definitely attend this program again."

There were displays by the following: FIRST LEGO League Team- Middle School-Beltsville, Project Lead The Way—FT Meade HS-Anne Arundel County—CCBC, Engineering Design Class, Engineering Challenges—Baltimore Museum of Industry, FIRST Robotics—Poly HS, Morgan State University, Engineering Students, FIRST Robotics—Dunbar HS, FIRST Robotics—Woodlawn HS and a classroom of students from Deep Creek Middle School, Baltimore County.

"The program was outstanding. The panel touched a lot of students in the audience."

For students to learn more about manufacturing and engineering careers, contact your school counselor.

Click http://marylandmanufacturing.info/cms/node/193 to see a list of websites for teachers and students to learn about manufacturing, engineering and competition programs for students.

Student Quick picks:

BeWhatIWantToBe.com Through the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education's Achievement Counts campaign, “Be what I want to Be” is working to provide people with information, encouragement, assistance and a vision of what is possible in life.

engineeringsights.com - A Sightseer’s Guide to Engineering by the National Society of Professional Engineers. Want to find a cool place to learn about technology in your state? This is like a virtual technology field trip.

Stanford University - “How Everyday Things Are Made” by the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing. Find out how things are made from Dubble Bubble Bubble Gum to Airplanes. See videos and get links to manufacturer’s websites.

Community College of Baltimore County Engineering Degree - Laura LeMire 410-455-7904. CCBC now offers two engineering tracks: the engineering transfer degree for students wishing to become engineers, and the engineering technician degree for those pursuing a career as an engineering technician in civil or mechanical engineering.

GREENING THE SUPPLY CHAIN CONFERENCE

Registration www.regonline.com/63343_611421A

U.S. Senator Ben Cardin to Kick-Off Conference - U.S. Senator Ben Cardin will be the keynote speaker at the Regional Manufacturing Institute's (RMI) Greening the Supply Chain conference to be held on June 3 at the BWI Marriott in Linthicum, Maryland. RMI is co-hosting the event with the EPA Green Suppliers Network and the Maryland-Asia Environmental Partnership. This public-private forum will showcase initiatives that Baxter International, General Motors, Steelcase and Johnson Controls have made to green their supply chains. The initiative is having a huge impact on the thousands of suppliers and vendors who want to make sure they meet the standards that have been committed to by these Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). "In terms of public policy, one of the most important steps businesses can take is to commit to greening the supply chain," said U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "Collectively, businesses have power and by encouraging their suppliers to adopt certain environmentally responsible practices, our nation's manufacturers can have an enormous impact on improving our environment and on setting new eco-friendly standards," he added.

Going $Green with Maryland Manufacturing

Fall 2007 Conference A Success Maryland stakeholders from business, government and academia heard from such Maryland-based manufacturers as General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Johnson Controls, Coca Cola Constellation NewEnergy and Marlin Steel Wire Products who provided examples of how their green manufacturing initiatives have increased their profitability while also benefiting the environment. Both federal and Maryland state government agencies provided insights on their programs, some of them free, to help companies become more efficient and less polluting to help industry better understand “how to go green.”

Women & Minorities in Manufacturing & Engineering

RMI Energy Program

Energy Conservation is the way to immediate cost savings. That was the message at the Feb 23rd Energy Conservation – Wise Choices for Manufacturers program. One hundred nine people attended the event.

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