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Presentation Abstract: How to Rule the High-Tech World Adding important tools to your high-tech toolbox.
October 11, 2022 @ 6:00 am - 7:30 pm
Presentation Abstract
How to Rule the High-Tech World
Adding important tools to your high-tech toolbox.
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 for 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:
1. 3-D Printing,
2. Digital Twinning
3. Factory 4.0 (Meta Process Control),
4. Artificial Intelligence, Virtual & Augmented Reality,
5. Supply Chain Management (horizontal vs. vertical integration)
6. 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.
This will be a joint meeting with SME Tampa Bay, Florida Suncoast Chapter 159
of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Speaker Biography
Tom Borkes
Tom Borkes is the Founder of The Jefferson Project. Its mission is to build and
maintain a world-class workforce for the domestic electronics industry while
showcasing state-of-the-art equipment and developing emerging assembly
technologies.
A graduate of Hofstra University with a B.S. in Engineering Science, specializing
in Mechanical Engineering, Tom has over 35 years of technical and managerial
experience in electronic product design, assembly, test, and manufacturing
automation with companies such as John & Johnson, Philips Circuit Assemblies,
and Interconics.
Tom has also taught in an adjunct capacity for the engineering departments at the
City College of New York and Valencia Community College in Florida.