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Engineering Go For It!
A 64-page comprehensive guide to a career in engineering & technology. A colorful, inspiring magazines designed to attract high school students, counselors, parents, and teachers to the exciting world of engineering and technology.

Northwest Indiania's Career Exploration
Northwest Indiana's Career Exploration was developed by Goal Team 2 of the Community Workforce Compact.

AMC2
The Advanced Manufacturing Career Collaborative (AMC2) was established because of a shared sense of urgency concerning Southwestern PA's ability to provide a technically trained workforce in the numbers needed by the region's manufacturing sector.

New Jersey Next Stop…Your Career
Manufacturing - Jersey makes, the world takes. New Jersey’s history is rooted in manufacturing products, everything from food to chemical production in Northern New Jersey, to glass manufacturing in Southern New Jersey. Manufacturing processes have become much more high-tech and workers are increasingly likely to spend their days monitoring a computerized control center instead of manually operating cumbersome tools or machines. But like everywhere else, New Jersey’s economy is becoming much more dependent on services and information technology, rather than goods manufacturing, much of which is moving overseas. That said, New Jersey won’t be losing touch with its heritage anytime soon.

Career Podcasts
Choose from 350 different podcasts to learn more about options in 16 career fields - everything from finance and engineering to education and government. You can download these files onto your iPod or play them on your computer. Select a category and video below and then click on "Play Video." The running time of most videos is approximately 2 minutes.

Career OneStop Career Videos
See "real people doing real work". Each career video below may be viewed using either Windows Media or RealPlayer. View over 300 videos in Spanish.

Jobs With A Future
Do you like cars? Ever wondered where the parts for those cars come from? In Canada, more than 100,000 people are in well paid and secure careers designing and manufacturing $35 billion worth of parts for the North American automotive industry. Another 55,000 Canadians are employed in the actual making of cars and trucks. The number of automotive manufacturing jobs will grow 10% in the next few years. Automotive parts jobs lead the way, having risen by about 33% since 1992. Most parts makers plan to further expand their skilled trades workforce beyond 2003 thanks to increasing business, the need for updating to new technology, and the need to replace the thousands of workers anticipated to retire over the 10 years. Automotive Parts Manufacturing is Canada's #1 Manufacturing industry!

Click on Careers
ClickonCareers.com connects the most progressive companies and training providers with the most qualified career-minded individuals, offering outstanding listings and superior services that help individuals find the training they need to get the career they want.

Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing
The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing is developing tools and processes to enable high-rate/high-volume bottom-up, precise, assembly of nanoelements (such as carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles, etc.) and polymer nanostructures. The center's nanotemplates are utilized to conduct fast massive directed assembly of nanoelements by controlling the forces required to assemble, detach, and transfer nanoelements over large areas. The developed technology will accelerate the creation of highly anticipated commercial products and will enable the creation of an entirely new generation of applications in electronics, energy, material, bio/medical areas.

National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering
The mission of NCLT is to develop the next generation of leaders in nanoscale science and engineering teaching and learning, with an emphasis on NSEE capacity building, providing a strong impact on national science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The guiding theme of NCLT is learning and teaching through inquiry and design of nanoscale materials and applications.

Virginia Nanotechnology Initiative
VNI was initiated in 2002 (as INanoVA) with seed funding from the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and has remained a program within CIT to work with Virginia’s universities, federal laboratories, industrial partners, and state agencies to promote collaborative nanotechnology research, workforce development, technology transfer, and commercialization. As you look through the following pages, you will see the considerable activity in nanotechnology across the Commonwealth.

MOLO Molecular Logic
The goal of the Molecular Logic project is to improve the ability of all students to understand fundamental biological phenomena in terms of the interactions of atoms and molecules. The Molecular Logic project aims to do this by enhancing biology courses with guided explorations of powerful atomic and molecular computational models. These models are embedded in an easily implemented database linked to both typical textbooks and standards.

nanoHub
A resource for nanoscience and technology, the nanoHub was created by the NSF-funded NCN and its development is driven by themes in: nanoelectronics, NEMS/nanofluids, Nano-Bio Devices, Nanophotonics.

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center
The Sloan Career Cornerstone Center is a non-profit resource center for those exploring career paths in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computing, and healthcare. Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made the resources on this site possible. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation.

Tech Group Resources - Plastics Tooling
This list of resources was prepared by the SME Plastics Tooling & Mold Design Tech Group. This group provides plastics part designers, tool designers, moldmakers and molders with the knowledge, educational and technical resources required to work as a manufacturing team to successfully compete in the global economy.

SMC Business Councils
SMC Business Councils is the Premier Business Association in Pennsylvania. SMC can help you get connected to people, programs, and services you need to succeed in today's rapidly changing market place. We serve smaller businesses of all kinds - our 5,000+ members include some of Pennsylvania's leading smaller businesses.