(Radio Iowa) – The University of Northern Iowa Metal Casting Center is joining with trade groups to reach out to recruit more workers, including K-12 students. The Center’s associate director Nathaniel Bryant says it’s an industry that impacts everyone.
Casting involved pouring molten metal into a mold, while forging heats up metal and forges it into parts. Bryant says this is part of a national effort to bring the industry back to the U-S.
They’ve found that it’s not something a lot of people know about, including K-12 students.
Bryant says the industry needs people with a lot of different specialties.
He says he’s run into many young people who are into video games like Minecraft and others who would be a good fit for the program.
He says they are options in the industry out of community colleges and trade schools for robotic technicians, maintenance people, electricians and plumbers.
