Manufacturing An American Century

Episode 47: Celebrating American Manufacturing at 250 with MEP Leaders from New England!

Happy Fourth of July week! This is the first of a three-episode special edition of Manufacturing an American Century, produced…

10 hours ago

Episode 46: Building Utah’s Manufacturing Ecosystem: Jeff Edwards on Composites, Collaboration, and the Long Game

I had the opportunity to sit down with Jeff Edwards, Senior Advisor on Materials and Manufacturing at 47G, Utah's Aerospace…

2 days ago

Episode 45: Economic Development as a Team Sport: Dennis Alvord on Building Regional Economies That Endure

It was a real pleasure to sit down with Dennis Alvord, a nearly 30-year veteran of the federal civil service…

2 months ago

Episode 43: Can Legacy Manufacturing Regions Reinvent Themselves? Kenan Fikri on Dynamism and Place

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Kenan Fikri, Senior Fellow at the Economic Innovation Group, an economic think…

2 months ago

Episode 43: Turning Evidence into Action: ANL’s Alison Peoples on Building Regional Manufacturing Ecosystems

It was a pleasure to welcome Alison Peoples from Argonne National Laboratory to the podcast. Alison is a statistician and…

3 months ago

Episode 42: Building a Manufacturing Movement That Lasts with Manufacturing Happy Hour’s Chris Luecke

It was a pleasure to welcome Chris Luecke to the podcast. Chris is a podcast himself, as founder and  host…

3 months ago

Episode 41: Building Manufacturing Ecosystems to Succeed in an Uncertain World with Dr. Nikhil Kalathil

It was a real pleasure to welcome Dr. Nikhil Kalathil to the Manufacturing in the American Century podcast. Nikhil earned…

6 months ago

Episode 40: Access, Trust, and Talent: Building Workforce Pathways That Work with The Machinists Institute’s Shana Peschek

In this episode, I’m joined by Shana Peschek, Executive Director of the Machinists Institute, for a timely conversation about what…

7 months ago

Hyper-Local, High Impact: How to Build Manufacturing Talent Fast with the CNC Career Network’s Daniel Wierman

On this edition of Manufacturing an American Century, I sat down with Daniel Wierman, founder of CNC Career Network, to…

7 months ago

From Passion to Pathways: How ASME is Building the Next Generation of Makers w/Kathleen Kosmoski

It was a real pleasure to welcome Kathleen Kosmoski, Director of Workforce Development at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers…

9 months ago