ASCM and SME Tampa Bay invite you to join us for a presentation by Thomas Borkes, a mechanical engineering professional with over 35 years of technical and manufacturing experience, on Tuesday, October 11th about adding important tools to your high-tech toolbox.

**This will be a joint meeting with SME Tampa Bay, Florida Suncoast Chapter 159 of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

The associated learning for earning skills is barely touched on in traditional post-secondary Bachelor of Science engineering programs. Instead, the focus has been almost exclusively on teaching students learning to solve the problems at the end of the chapter.

 This presentation will provide the role of emerging, leading-edge technologies for circuit boards and higher-level assemblies. You will learn about:

• 3-D Printing

• Digital Twinning

• Factory 4.0 (Meta Process Control)

• Artificial Intelligence, Virtual & Augmented Reality

• Supply Chain Management (horizontal vs. vertical integration)

• Extreme Robotics & Automation

And finally, a real-world example of Designing for Automation (DFA) will be provided.

Virtually ignored are critical thinking, open-form problem solving (i.e., more unknowns than equations), and the other skills needed for success in the globally competitive real world. These educational programs are addressed, and potential methods to close this academic-to-real world gap are provided.

Meeting Agenda:

5:30-6:00 pm | Pre-Event Networking/Check-In

6:00-6:10 pm | ASCM/SME Announcements

6:10-6:40 pm | Dinner Service

6:40-7:30 pm | Presentation/Q&A/Meeting Adjournment