Developing the CORE program

Over the next five years, we developed the CORE training program that taught our engineers how to work in 21st century’s multidisciplinary teams. We taught them how to conduct design reviews; work with engineers outside their discipline; communicate and work with non-engineers; and design products that could actually be manufactured. We immersed them in actual engineering team environments rather than trying to teach exclusively in the classroom. This experiential program focused on designing, testing, prototyping, building, and manufacturing in engineering teams.

The program was deemed highly successful by a variety of internal metrics, most notably the reduction in time for engineers to be identified and assigned to international teams — from about six years to less than two. At this point, our partners started asking why we don't “simply” teach these skills in college undergraduate programs from the start.

Great question.

So we thought we’d try it and the BUILD Program was born. What to do next? Let’s test the classes it at an actual university.

Summary: What’s in this for you?

The BUILD program was built to create an elite workforce of unusually capable people who understand the whole process it takes to go from an idea to a product. This goes beyond the equations in a classroom and requires working with both experts in your field and people outside your field. You are going to learn from people who do things for a living and know what it takes to actually create something practical.