Education
Mold Technologies Division of SPE Announces 2024 Award Recipients at NPE 2024
The Mold Technologies Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) honored recipients of four awards at NPE, recognizing excellence in moldmaking and supporting the next generation with a new Apprentice of the Year award. Each winner receives a $1,000 stipend for their training program.
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Scholarship, Grant Funding Available from SPE Mold Technologies Division
There’s no better time to discuss the scholarships and grants available to support education in plastics and moldmaking.
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Advancing Mold Design Demo: The Role of VR in Closing the Skills Gap
This Q&A and demo explain how virtual reality training tackles the skills gap by providing immersive, cost-effective learning experiences.
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How to Use Continuing Education to Remain Competitive in Moldmaking
Continued training helps moldmakers make tooling decisions and properly use the latest cutting tool to efficiently machine high-quality molds.
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Thoughts on VR's Immersive, Interactive Mold Design Training
A virtual reality (VR) application transforms training from passive to active learning by immersing users in a dynamic virtual space.
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Educating the Next Generation of Plastics Professionals
These schools and local industry are working together to close the workforce gap in the plastics industry by offering hefty plastics curricula and training programs for degree-seeking students as well as current plastics employees looking to upskill.
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The Intersection of Robotics, Hands-on Training in Mold Design Curriculum
A Q&A with Nicholas Vitelli, MoldMaking Technology EAB member and engineering lecturer at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
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Using Virtual Reality to Train New Moldmakers
How far are we from a mold manual in virtual reality to train customers in mold assembly? For the answer listen to Torsten Kruse, Kruse Analysis and Rick Finnie, M.R. Mold as they share their team effort to develop VR for moldmaking training.
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Mold Maintenance Continues to Matter: Enhanced Training Program in a New Facility
I attended a MoldTrax mold maintenance workshop in 2019 and shared my experiences, and despite changes in ownership, the workshop's remarkable value endures, as discussed in a recent Q&A with the current leadership.
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Passion, Potential & Unlimited Career Possibilities
The Advanced Manufacturing Design Technology Team at Central Community College in Hastings, Nebraska, talks about their facility expansion and their 100 years of instructor experience that helps to mentor students from drafting, manual machines and CNC to part, mold and die design and advanced machining.
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