Making It Work
Officials Say City, County Geared Up For Manufacturing
Posted: September 22, 2012
Blue Ridge Community College students Patrick Craft (left) of Staunton and Ray Tinker Campbell of Greenville design machine parts in a mechanical design and engineering class on Wednesday. Tech education is helping to prepare the area to take on more manufacturing jobs, officials say. (Photos by Michael Reilly / DN-R)
Blue Ridge Community College mechanical design and drafting professor Jonathan Brumfield instructs his students in designing machine parts on Wednesday.
BRCC students use computers to design machine parts.
HARRISONBURG — Since 2002, 1,190 new manufacturing jobs have been created in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, according to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.
While some...
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