The Economic Growth Institute has been awarded a STEM Talent Challenge Grant from the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA).  The EDA announced $2 million in grants to seven organizations on January 19, 2021.  The inaugural STEM Talent Challenge aims to boost local science, technology, engineering, and math talent through STEM workforce readiness while fueling innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging and transformative sectors.

EGI will implement an Advanced Manufacturing Cybersecurity Work-and-Learn Program (AMCP), which combines online instruction and hands-on learning labs to build cybersecurity knowledge within a manufacturing setting.  AMCP will fulfill a critical need in Michigan for cybersecurity professionals with specific knowledge of manufacturing equipment.

Most manufacturers today rely on outside expertise to ensure they have a secure environment to protect their most critical assets. Cybersecurity is not an area that the traditional manufacturing workforce is equipped to implement and maintain. The challenge is that cyber professionals are experts in cybersecurity, not manufacturing. There is a significant lack of cybersecurity talent that can serve and support the unique needs of the manufacturing environment.

AMCP will prepare the workforce of the future to not only have solid foundational training in cybersecurity but to also have an understanding of the manufacturing environment.  Through a work-and-learn structure, learners will complete a structured online curriculum and hands-on learning labs.  They will apply their learning as they assist manufacturers directly through a manufacturing internship or by developing their own cybersecurity business to serve manufacturers, employing a larger workforce from this same talent pipeline.

Cybersecurity is the foundation to ensure manufacturers across southeast Michigan are prepared to integrate advanced manufacturing and digital technologies.  Developing a cybersecurity workforce that knows the criticalities of manufacturing will grow employment, retain jobs, and prepare the region’s manufacturers to compete on a global scale.

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Interested in engaging with AMCP?  Learn more about the program here, or contact Ashlee Breitner at abreitn@umich.edu 

February 8, 2021

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