NJIT to host opening ceremony for New Jersey Manufacturing Week Sept. 28

The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced plans to host the opening ceremony for New Jersey Manufacturing Week: Talent Driving Prosperity.

The half-day event on Sept. 28, which is free and open to the public, kicks off a week of workshops, talks, and festivities to draw awareness to the shortage of workers for New Jersey manufacturers and offer ideas on ways to train, recruit, and retain a network of skilled, talented manufacturing professionals.

The program will include guest speakers from New Jersey’s manufacturing sector and a panel discussion moderated by Ian Trammell, executive director of MechaForce, a statewide program that aims to prepare 500 New Jersey residents to become apprentices in more than 50 manufacturing firms.

There will be a live broadcast of Manufacturing Talk Radio, an Internet show hosted by keynote speakers Lewis Weiss and Tim Grady, who will discuss solutions to impede the skills-gap crisis facing U.S. manufacturers.