IEEE-USA starts training institute for US workers

20.03.2006
IEEE-USA plans to create an Innovation Institute as part of its effort to offer advanced training to U.S. workers.

The organization hopes that the institute will help U.S. companies remain competitive with others around the world and that more technical jobs will be filled by U.S. workers.

IEEE-USA represents engineers, including those working in IT.

Ralph Wyndrum, president of IEEE-USA, said his organization will hold a workshop for faculty in July. The institute is currently recruiting technology innovators to teach there.

At the same time, IEEE-USA plans to ask companies to nominate students for the institute, he said.

The ideal student, said Wyndrum, would be a young advanced-degree holder who is already considered to be among the most prolific of a company's product developers and patent holders.