Sarah Boisvert

Gebundenes Buch

The New Collar Workforce

An Insider's Guide to Making Impactful Changes to Manufacturing and Training

Beschreibung

Manufacturers are looking to train workers and reduce the coming skilled-worker shortfall. In a book for hiring managers, educators and parents, and career changers, a leader in high-tech product commercialization and digital fabrication prepares readers for changes in the factory and presents new options for training digital factory workers.

Autor

Sarah Boisvert has more than 30 years of experience in the design, development and commercialization of high-technology products utilizing digital fabrication methods including laser machining and 3D printing. Her graduate work in market segmentation at Johns Hopkins University led to her expertise in productization of high tech devices. Ms. Boisvert is a co-founder of the commercial division of Potomac Photonics Inc. of Baltimore, which she joined to commercialize a proprietary RF-discharge excimer laser. Following the sale of the company in 1999, Ms. Boisvert founded Fab Lab Hub, part of the MIT-based Fab Lab Network, in order to foster entrepreneurship and workforce training in digital fabrication manufacturing skills. She returned to Potomac part time as chief 3D printing officer in February 2014. Ms. Boisvert is a fellow and past president of the Laser Institute of America and has served on The Optical Society's Industry Advisory Board as well as on the boards of numerous international technical societies. For fun, she creates 3D-printed jewelry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchladybirdlucky Studios
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780998853987
• ISBN-10: 0998853984
• Artikelnr.: 69703711