Check out our latest published article on the survival of the fluid power industry. The article discusses how the fluid power industry must think differently about helping educate our nation’s children in math and science if the industry wants to survive. Here’s a sampling of the article in the September issue of Today’s Fluid Power magazine.
Fluid power isn’t sexy. That’s the conclusion the international fluid power industry came to in 2007 as the reason why there is a shortage of people with fluid power skills influencing design decisions regarding which motion control technologies to use. The fluid power industry isn’t the only industry seeing this image problem. It’s a systemic crisis that permeates the entire US culture.
A 2008 Harris Interactive study for the American Society for Quality found that 44% of kids, ages 8 – 17, don’t know much about engineering, and 30% of the respondents want a more exciting profession than engineering. While 97% of parents stated they believe that knowledge of math and science will help their children have a successful career, only 20% encourage/will encourage their sons or daughters to become engineers.
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