New Collar Workforce Lecture
Fab Lab Hub Founder Sarah Boisvert will present “The New Collar Workforce: An Insider’s Guide to Making Impactful Change in Manufacturing and Training” on Monday, April 9, at 6 p.m. in the Parotti Recital Hall at Western New Mexico University. A leader in laser manufacturing and the author of “New Collar Job Training for Industry 4.0,” Boisvert said, “Blue collar jobs are now digital.” With more than 30 years of experience in the design development and commercialization of high technology products, she is the founder of the MIT-based Fab Lab Network non-profit, which helps start new makerspaces and conducts workforce and entrepreneurship training in digital fabrication. During the lecture, Boisvert will discuss the workforce development in manufacturing curriculum she has developed and made available nationwide during her talk on campus. She will share how to create new opportunities in smart manufacturing, discover the future of work in the digital...