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On the web
Engineering tech programs at
UW-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh
» www.uwgb.edu/engineeringtech/
» www.uwosh.edu/engineeringtech
Sheboygan Area Youth Apprenticeship
program
» gotoltc.edu/business-industry/hire-a-
student/business-youth-apprenticeship/
index.html
NEW Manufacturing Alliance members
offering internships
» www.newmfgalliance.org/outreach.htm
Child labor laws regarding youth
apprentices
» dwd.wisconsin.gov/dwd/publications/dws//
youthapprenticeship/detw_15530_p.pdf
Northeast Wisconsin Educational
Resource Alliance internship website
» intern2work.com
De Pere, WI
www.robinsonmetal.com
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it on the soware, and going through
design reviews, and things like that."
Burgard first got interested in
engineering through a freshman
CAD-I class and got involved in
robotics as well. His mentor at Joa,
Troy Pagel, helps him by encouraging
him to find the answers himself.
"Any questions I have, he'll just
stop what he's doing and come over
and help me, and usually we'll get the
problem solved," Burgard says. "He
doesn't give me the answer right away,
he makes you work for it and think
through the problem, even if he has
the answer."
Engineering is a field that Joa is
always recruiting in. Staffing specialist
Kramer says of the 425 employees,
120 are engineers. e machine shop
is also an area of heavy recruitment,
"and where I spend a lot of my time,
because it just keeps on circling back
to that skills gap," she says. "We're
hiring our high school students
and we're going to pay to get them
educated. In the meantime, that takes
a while. So we're always looking to
try to find people who already have
those skills, in addition to building our
skilled workforce."
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