How You Can Get Involved

  • Various partners of the advisory comittee meet to help define changes in education

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    The Center of Excellence’s Advisory Committee, made up of partners from industry, education, and government, plays a critical role in defining how the Center connects industry to education. Your voice is needed.

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  • The Center offers workforce data for our business partners to expand

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    The Center of Excellence is here to help your business expand, accessing the best talent Washington has to offer. We do that by providing industry with workforce and industry data, occupational analyses and referrals to partners across education and government.

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  • We are a link to finding future employees across the aerospace and advanced manufacturing sector

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    With links to all 34 of Washington’s Community and Technical Colleges, the Center of Excellence is your link to find future employees, learn more about programs and understand how to plug in to your area’s aerospace and manufacturing programs.

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Trends in aerospace & Advanced manufacturing

avionics

A blend of aviation and electronics, the avionics installed in an aircraft or spacecraft include engine controls, flight control systems, navigation, and systems that carry out hundreds of other mission and flight management tasks.

Every modern aircraft, spacecraft, and artificial satellite uses electronic systems that are becoming more necessary every day. Generally, the more complex the craft or mission is, the more complicated the electronic systems are that they employ.

Explore avionics programs at Washington’s community and technical colleges.

Green Aviation

Green Aviation involves activities to improve aircraft fuel efficiency, build the next generation of efficient air traffic control, and develop new technologies and systems engineering processes to reach the future of carbon-neutral air transportation across the globe.

With companies like Eviation, MagniX, and ZeroAvia setting up shop in Washington State, the subsector is poised to grow in the years to come. This cutting-edge technology is a necessity for the climate commitments Washington State has made.

Automation

Automation in manufacturing is the process of using production management software or robotic tools to operate a factory when making a physical product.

These tools are built to perform operations to help businesses with tasks such as processing, assembly, inspection, inventory management, and production planning. In the past, a tool would perform a specialized task, but with technological advancements, the number of operations that a tool can perform has increased.

Skilled workers are needed to program and repair automated systems. Find your automation program.