Organizations Programs and Websites

20. Association for Operations Management, http://www.apics.org.

21. CareerME Manufacturing, A website to enhance awareness of advantages of careers in manufacturing, http://careerme.org/, April 2011.

22. Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP), http://www.dapcep.org/, April 2011.

23. Department of Labor, “Career One Stop, Pathways to Career Success”, A U.S. Department of Labor website, http://www.careeronestop.or/competencymodel, viewed May 2011.

24. Engineers Without Borders-US, http://www.ewb-usa.org/.

25. FIRST Robotics, http://www.usfirst.org, viewed April 2011.

26. Focus: HOPE, http://www.focushope.edu/, viewed April 2011.

27. Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, http://www.ipa.fraunhofer.de/.

28. Gradschools, http://www.gradschools.com, viewed May 2011.

29. Manufacturing Institute, “Skills Certification System”, http://institute.nam.org/page/edu_workforce_skills_cert, viewed May

2011.

30. Masters Portal; Database of Masters Programmes in Europe, http://www.Mastersportal.eu/students/browse/programme/960/production-systems-engineering.html, Viewed May 2011.

31. Olin College, http://www.olin.edu, viewed April 2011.

32. Project Lead The Way (PLTW), http://www.pltw.org/, viewed April 2011.

33. The Sloan Consortium, A Consortium of Institutions and Organizations Committed to Quality Online Education, Viewed 4/7/11, http://www.sloanconsortium.org.

34. Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation (SME-EF), http://www.smeef.org/programs/index.html, April

2011.

35. Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Chapters, http://www.sme.org/chapters, April 2011.

36. Sterling College, Promotional Materials viewed in 2004.

37. Technical Community Network of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, http://www.sme.org/tcn.

38. Tech Watch reports, Society of Manufacturing Engineers,http://www.sme.org/techwatch.