SME Education Foundation

SME Education Foundation selects Francis Tuttle Technology Center, Oklahoma City, Okla., as one of six in nation for community-based approach to manufacturing education.

SME Education Foundation selects Walker Career Center, Indianapolis, Ind., as one of six schools in the nation for community-based approach to manufacturing education. Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education (PRIME) launched nationally.

SME Chicago Chapter 5 has been awarded the 2011 Outstanding Education Partner of the Year Award by the SME Education Foundation in recognition of its commitment to transforming manufacturing education for workforce development.

Fairmont High School, Kettering, Ohio, has been selected an exemplary school by the SME Education Foundation, one of six schools in six states where partnerships are fueling a comprehensive community-based approach to manufacturing education.

The SME Education Foundation is investing in the future of manufacturing education by addressing the shortage of manufacturing and technical talent in the United States with PRIME: Partnership in Manufacturing Education program.

Gene Haas Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Haas Automation, Inc., provides $150,000 grant to SME Education Foundation for machinist training in high unemployment markets.

The SME Education Foundation launch of PRIME: (Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education) to create strong partnerships between organizations, businesses, exemplary schools to provide a community-based approach to manufacturing education.

The SME Education Foundation Board of Directors voted to move $835,000 to the Myrtle and Earl Walker Endowed Scholarship fund. The fund is now endowed at the $2 million level, and will pay out $100,000 a year in scholarships.

Siemens PLM Software and the SME Education Foundation provide $538,500 in-kind software grant to the Academy of Engineering at River Ridge High School to expand delivery of advanced engineering education.

North American engineering students, winners of the Fourth Annual Italian Machine Tool Technology Award (IMTTA) awarded by The Italian Trade Commission (Chicago), visited machine tool companies and studied at Politecnico University-Milan, Italy.