sutomcat
No recent Cali or Iggy awards; Mr Irrelevant
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One of the reasons Micron was attracted to locating this plant in upstate NY is because of the proliferation of outstanding engineering colleges in the area. It is a vastly different situation that what they have had to deal with in Idaho.Seems like there are even more plugged in people that have industry experience than I but
Hourly production and do'ers can be trained but it isn't easy.
The gap will exist in the Engineers. Principal and Sr. Principal engineers or fellows are not going to be cheap by any means and getting people to move here I just believe will be a challenge at the clip needed. These processes are so technical that it just requires a skill that not many people have.
I think people have ran with my comment and said i was being negative. I want it to succeed for our area and community as much as anyone. I am just saying that its not popping up a "normalized" manufacturing plant.
There are many really good engineering school nearby.
RIT, RPI, Clarkson, Cornell, Rochester, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Albany, Syracuse, SUNY Utica, Alfred, USF (great environmental programs).
Columbia, NYU, SUNY StonyBrook and many others are also not far away.
I think it is going to be great for the upstate NY economy to retain a lot more of of best and brightest college graduates locally.