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Moving Beyond Paideia: Learning for Earning

08/11/2016 | Tom Borkes, The Jefferson Project
The complexities of our technological world and global marketplace now demand the development of specific, saleable skills as part of the student-customer's educational process--and that the template for teaching these skills must be based in the real world. Tom Borkes explains why in this article.

The STEM Trap

08/03/2016 | Tom Borkes, The Jefferson Project
Post-secondary schools have not been responsive to the changing landscape of the modern electronic product assembly operation—they really can’t, considering the lack of real-world experience of most of the faculty. In this article, Tom Borkes explains why.

The Henry Ford Division of Labor Production Model

05/31/2016 | Tom Borkes, The Jefferson Project
We are all aware of what the price of assembling a product is based upon: material cost, number of labor hours needed for the product assembly and test, and labor sell rate in dollars per hour. In this article, Tom Borkes writes why the disparity in labor sell rates is still daunting.

The Importance of Being Earnest (Educated)

05/11/2016 | Tom Borkes, The Jefferson Project
This new column in SMT Magazine, titled "Jumping Off the Bandwagon," is dedicated to the continued development and improvement of the high-tech electronic product assembly industry, and the human component of that industry. For his first article, Tom Borkes talks about issues that, unless addressed, will continue to put product assembly at a disadvantage in high labor rate areas of the world.

The Jefferson Project, Part 2: Automation as a Counterweight to Low Labor-Rate Assembly

02/10/2016 | Patty Goldman, I-Connect007
In Part 1 of this interview, Tom Borkes, founder of The Jefferson Project and the forthcoming Jefferson Institute of Technology, provided his well-researched plan to introduce students to tech manufacturing, as well as discussed the paper he presented at SMTAI. In Part 2, Tom expands on the example set forth in his SMTAI paper, and describes another important tool in reducing labor cost through the reduction of labor content: designing for automation.
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