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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Engineering
They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
Most employers provide incumbents with training on both technical and soft skills. Technical training topics include new technology, new product development and efficiency, and new software.
| "Our electrical and controls engineers spend a lot of time working with our suppliers and distributors of the controls software, the current technology that's out there." | Metro |
| "We do some training with groups of engineers to allow them to understand that there is a process that you can use, especially in this new product development area, to get the product to a point where it can be commercialized or pushed out into the marketplace. So, we do a lot of work in that area." | Metro |
| "Often, the training that these folks get is offered by some of the vendors' learn-specific model, modeling software. A geochemistry class might be offered by a professional organization of some type. I think there are probably two with the chemical. Air quality modeling is offered more specialized." | Metro |
| "The technical is going to continue. We have seen a lot of growth in technology, and a bachelor's degree gets you the best place of entry. But there is a whole lot more beyond that. Some additional training to keep up with advances in technology because our clients want the advantage of having a company that understands current technology. So, we're going to continue to push our staff to gain those skills." | Metro |