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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:
Many companies have developed their own incumbent training programs. Others use suppliers, either bringing them in-house or sending employees off-site. (Off-site training is considered more cost-effective.) Those employers that have used higher education for incumbent training mentioned working with the University of St. Thomas and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
| "We've got kind of a unique situation. Our parent company is in Europe and they're renowned for their engineering technology. So, we really tap into their skills. We send our engineers—almost all of them go to Europe—maybe on a yearly basis. Some of them go four or five times a year. And we have the European engineers come here, so we utilize that. We use their knowledge and their experience to train our engineers and to keep them. I think it gives them a challenge, too." | Southwest |
| "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." | Southwest |
| "We have actually set up a formal program; we call it Engineering University. New engineers are required to take online classes offered by TPC." | Southwest |