NKY company faces skilled labor shortage
The Business Courier highlights a UC engineering academy for high school students
The Business Courier highlighted an engineering academy for high school students sponsored by GE Aerospace and administered by the University of Cincinnati.
The newspaper spoke to Northern Kentucky machine tool company Mazak about its planned expansion amid a national shortage of skilled workers.
According to the Business Courier, advanced manufacturing is strong in Greater Cincinnati with 121,300 manufacturing employees.
UC is working with companies like GE Aerospace to help train students for technical and high-skills jobs.
GE Aerospace's Engineering Academy provides students ages 15 to 18 with hands-on experience, including design challenges, university campus exploration and interaction with GE volunteers. Grads who complete the program and meet eligibility requirements receive partial scholarships to support their engineering dreams.
Students gain more than 220 hours of hands-on experience before they graduate.
GE Aerospace announced its collaboration with UC will continue through at least 2028.
Likewise, UC's nationally renowned co-op program provides on-the-job experience students need to launch their careers in a diversity of fields from engineering to business.
Related Stories
How a SCOTUS decision could impact a Cincinnati ban
May 6, 2026
Ryan Thoreson, associate professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, spoke to WVXU's Cincinnati Edition about a Cincinnati ban on conversion therapy in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling.
What can oral health tell us about kidney health?
May 6, 2026
A recent article published in BMC Nephrology points to a connection between oral health and kidney health, citing evidence analyzed by University of Cincinnati College of Medicine researchers. The article shows an association between oral diseases and chronic kidney disease. Priyanka Gudsoorkar, assistant professor-educator in the Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, recently appeared on Cincinnati Edition on 91.7 WVXU News, to discuss the latest findings.
Supreme Court to hear case involving religious preschools
May 6, 2026
Ryan Thoreson, an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, spoke to Newsweek about the Supreme Court agreeing to hear a new case filed by Catholic preschools in Colorado.