The practices presented in this report demonstrate some of the most promising approaches for education and skill building of America’s new manufacturing workforce. These practices were selected by a panel of experts from business, government, and education who served on the MForesight Education and Workforce Development Working Group (EWD). These individuals are known for their leadership in and access to key public-private networks engaged in critical education and workforce development initiatives, including the:

1. 1. public-private workforce investment system;

2. secondary and postsecondary career and technical education systems;

3. 3. community and technical college systems, with particular emphasis on the 175 centers focused on advanced technologies;

4. Manufacturing Extension Partnership system;

5. economic development system at the state and local levels;

6. university systems, including R1’s, state, public and land-grant universities;

7. higher education systems broadly defined; and

8. innovation institutes/centers associated with institutions of higher education.

The EWD adopted the following mission of MForesight to guide their selection process:

MForesight will articulate the principles underlying policies and practices to ensure an educated, skilled, and ready U.S. manufacturing workforce, competent and confident in using state-of-the-art and emerging technologies and new materials and processes in advanced manufacturing.