August 2019

THE ROBOTS ARE COMING! Here’s how you can be ready for them Christopher Hill, Director-Automation Windstream Communications IN CASE YOU haven’t heard, robots are back, and back in a big way. Actually, they never left us, but they’ve definitely surged in popularity and features over the last few years. Today’s robots could give R2-D2 a […]

LAWRENCE E. WHITMAN, Ph.D., P.E. Dean of Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology University of Arkansas at Little Rock DR. LAWRENCE WHITMAN is an industrial engineer who worked for many years in the defense industry before entering academia. Now in his fifth year as dean of EIT at UA Little Rock, Whitman is a

SUMMER 2019 IS COMING to a close, and it’s back to school for many Arkansans. For ACDS, this summer has been active and eventful, including the launch of what we refer to internally as ACDS “Stage Two.” If you’ve heard our pitch, it stresses the short-run impact of registered apprenticeships, the most efficient, most cost

DO YOU KNOW the difference between an “internship” and an “apprenticeship”? Many people can’t distinguish between the two, so this month I want to spend a little time talking about both their differences and their similarities. The first thing to know is that internships are educator driven, while apprenticeships are employer driven. University professors or