RALEIGH, North Carolina (January 14, 2026) — North Carolina State University is proud to announce a new partnership with the Metallurgical Engineering Trades Apprenticeship & Learning (METAL) to enhance and […]
About 1,500 miles south of Cal Poly Pomona, in Guadalajara, Mexico, Dr. Victor Okhuysen learned his family’s trade: metalcasting. Today, Okhuysen, the interim associate dean for the College of Engineering […]
Dr. Paul Sanders fell in love with metalcasting in the foundry at Michigan Technological University more than 30 years ago. Today, as a materials science and engineering professor at his […]
Wife, mother and Airman Savana Ohlenburger has always led a life of service. After years of exploring careers in healthcare, she decided it was time to pursue her lifelong dream […]
December 15, 2025 – IACMI–The Composites Institute® (IACMI), today announced the launch of ‘Make It In America’, a national outreach campaign to raise awareness of careers in advanced manufacturing and […]
When Dr. Samantha Trzinski accepted the challenge to build a new forging class, she entered unfamiliar territory. Her career up to that point had been in education, not metallurgy. But […]
Cyler McClure has spent his career studying the ins and outs of semiconductors—microscopic metal switches that power today’s world. Now, as product engineering manager at TOSOH SMD, McClure empowers the […]
David Muzzy still remembers his first time visiting a foundry. While his dad, Glenn Muzzy Sr., gave him a tour of Walker Machine and Foundry Corp. where he worked, Muzzy […]
Check out this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast featuring METAL Program Manager Mike Kubacki. Manufacturers understand the skills gap: every day they recognize that do not have enough people […]
Don’t miss this episode of The Manufacturing Executive where host Joe Sullivan sits down with METAL Program Manager Mike Kubacki to discuss the METAL initiative. The workforce crisis in US […]
Original source: WBIR Students from Anderson County, Tennessee, recently visited our partners at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) for an immersive, hands-on forging workshop. During the session, students explored […]
Melissa Walston and Rachel Reed have spent their careers traveling the world, learning languages and guiding U.S. diplomats across foreign nations and cultures. But when it came to navigating a […]
