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Cybersecurity, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Jobs, Materials, Photonics, Robotics, Semi-Conductor, Smart Manufacturing, Workforce

Nose presses is not an official metric of workforce recruiting success for the Penn State Digital Foundry on 5th Avenue in New Kensington, PA, but it is hugely symbolic in the quest to expand the manufacturing talent pipeline in communities, according to Sherri McCleary, the Executive Director of the foundry.

A nose presser is a passerby who...

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Manufacturing, Manufacturing Jobs

The drive to create . Put simply, thats what has propelled Marley Passey into a career in manufacturing, despite the fact that shes legally blind. Ive always really enjoyed making things, building little wooden toys, Marley says. And this is the natural progression of that, making these really big and complex metal or composite parts. I...