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Pre-engineering students at FIT undertake a manufacturing project for a major firm

OAK HILL, WV (WOAY) – High School seniors in the pre-engineering class at the Fayette Institute of Technology are scaling, modeling, and presenting a project to a major manufacturing firm.

Every year the class comes together with Conn-Weld Industries out of Princeton to find a solution to a problem the company gives them to work with. This year the students undertook a manufacturing innovation challenge which they presented to Conn-Weld on Thursday.

“It gives them a real-world type of experience in an engineering atmosphere to work with industry professionals,” Engineering Technology instructor at FIT Scott McDaniel says.

https://woay.com/pre-engineering-students-at-fit-undertake-a-manufacturing-project-for-a-major-firm/

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