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Rose-Hulman Organizes Discussion on Rebuilding Manufacturing in Shelby County, Shelbyville
April 26, 2012
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is partnering with Shelby
County and Shelbyville community leaders in important economic
development discussions examining "The Rebirth of Small Town
Manufacturing through Innovation" on Thursday evening, April
26.
The town hall session, at the Intelliplex Conference Center,
2154 Intelliplex Drive in Shelbyville, has been organized by
Rose-Hulman's Department of Engineering Management and its
Continuing and Professional Studies Program. It will start with a
networking event from 6-6:30 p.m. for leaders from local and state
government, higher education, workforce development and industry.
The panel discussion is planned from 6:30-8 p.m.
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| Tom Mason |
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Chris King |
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Elizabeth
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A major focus of the session will be an examination of those
steps leaders can take to grow manufacturing in their community
during the 21st century, according to Tom Mason, Ph.D., emeritus
professor of engineering management and economics at
Rose-Hulman.
"Shelbyville is initiating bold measures to improve its future.
Manufacturing is now engaged in a new industrial revolution, and
Shelbyville and Shelby County want to ensure they take full
advantage of these exciting opportunities," stated Mason, an
entrepreneurship consultant, former Entrepreneur/Educator in
Residence for the Indiana Venture Center and recipient of
TechPoint's Mira Award for Education Contributions to Indiana
Technology by an Individual.
Other topics to be discussed by Shelby County and Shelbyville
officials include the roles of innovation, entrepreneurship,
Rose-Hulman alumni, education and economic development in
encouraging manufacturing growth and job creation; and how the area
can leverage relationships to accomplish these community
development goals.
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| Sue Ellspermann |
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Stu Kaplan |
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Lisa Laughner |
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"We want to develop a positive economic development partnership
between Shelby County, Shelbyville and Rose-Hulman that benefits
each other," said Chris King, a 2002 Rose-Hulman civil engineering
alumnus, executive vice president of Runnebohm Construction Company
Inc. and past-president of the Shelby County Development
Corporation. "This partnership will create a continuum for local
students from their early education through their college years,
encouraging them to return to grow businesses that make their
hometown community grow and prosper for future generations."
Joining Mason and King in these discussions will be Sue
Ellspermann, Ph.D., District 74 Indiana state representative;
Elizabeth Kozman, a 2002 Rose-Hulman mechanical engineering alumnus
and associate director of strategic and commercial development for
Biostorage Technologies Inc.; Stu Kaplan, president and owner of
Makuta Technics Inc. in Shelbyville's Intelliplex Park; and Lisa
Laughner, director at CONEXUS Indiana.