Grant will help train workers for 7E7 for Boeing with our tax money

[MSgt213]

Edmonds and Everett community colleges have received a $1.5 million federal grant to help train area workers in skills that closely match the needs of Boeing's new 7E7 jet program.
Much of the training will be delivered online and will be geared toward people already working in industry. Boeing consulted closely with the colleges and the county's economic development council in the choice of courses.

One focus is the technology of composites, the advanced materials from which the 7E7 airframe will be constructed.

Another is the sophisticated set of software tools that Boeing will use for 7E7 design and manufacture.

The final element is teaching engineers and technical workers how to communicate globally across cultural barriers.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2002083672_edmondscc06.html

[alevensalor]

1. Nice

What did we expect? Shrub's going to just keep making us perfect little factory workers.

~A!

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. This isn't exactly what "21st century job training" is all about

IMHO. This is more like a bail out for boeing. boeing ought to be paying for this training as a cost of doing business. This is bullshit.

[realisticphish]

3. ah i can see

how laissez-faire our government is...



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