Wanek Center of Innovation: A New Model for Industry 4.0 Education
October 31, 2025
When a manufacturer obsessed with competitiveness meets a college intent on reinvention, you get the Wanek Center of Innovation. At Western Technical College in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the Wanek...
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How Design & Fabrication are Being Optimized By AI, and What That Means for Technical Education
October 16, 2025
Step into any advanced manufacturing facility today and you’ll see rows of precision machines fabricating parts that used to take days, now done in hours. Products go from idea...
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How AI is Programmed – And How to Teach Those Skills in a High School Classroom
September 17, 2025
Artificial intelligence looks like magic from the outside: chatbots that hold full conversations, cars that drive themselves, tractors that spot weeds in real time. But every one of those...
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What’s New in Mechatronics? Bringing the Smart Factory to the Classroom
September 11, 2025
Mechatronics Has Evolved Mechatronics has long been the backbone of automation training, teaching students how to integrate mechanics, electronics, and control systems into working machines. Educators have built entire...
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Bringing Artificial Intelligence into the Agriculture Classroom
July 22, 2025
Artificial intelligence is playing a transformative role in agriculture. From optimizing planting strategies to automating harvest, AI is making farms smarter, more efficient, and more sustainable. These innovations aren’t...
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We Teach Students to Build Robots. Let’s Also Prepare Them for the Robots They’ll See on the Job.
July 9, 2025
Watch any FIRST Robotics team during competition season, and you’ll see students deep in code, fabricating parts, and problem-solving like pros. Programs like FIRST Robotics and VEX have done...
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AI + AMRs: Teaching the Intelligence Behind Autonomous Mobile Robots
June 26, 2025
Autonomous technology is changing how materials move through factories, warehouses, and even hospitals. If you teach robotics, mechatronics, or industrial technology, you have likely watched this shift with equal...
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The Complete Guide to 3D Scanning in Education
June 10, 2025
From engineering classrooms to art preservation labs, 3D scanning has become an essential tool in technical and post-secondary education. By allowing users to capture real-world objects with incredible accuracy...
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How to Evaluate Your Manufacturing Training Program: A Practical Guide for Workforce Leaders
June 4, 2025
Is your workforce training program truly aligned with today’s technology and talent needs—or is it quietly falling behind? Manufacturing is evolving at a pace we haven’t seen in decades....
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