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Index of Advertisers
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Bartington Instruments

2
www.bartington.com

COMSOL, Inc.

28
www.comsol.com

GMW Associates
HTS-110

5
www.gmw.com
18
www.scottautomation.com/hts-110

Integrated Magnetics

23
www.intemag.com

ITG Electronics

LE USA Walker Scientific

21
www.itg-electronics.com
15
www.laboratorio.elettrofisico.com

Magnet Applications, A Bunting Magnetics Company
11
www.magnetapplications.com
Magnet Physics

19
www.magnet-physics.com

Magnetic Instrumentation

23
www.maginst.com

MEDA, Inc.

12-13
www.meda.com

Metrolab Technology

9
www.metrolab.com

New England Wire Technologies
Spontaneous Materials

17
www.newenglandwire.com

25
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SPONTANEOUS THOUGHTS

a Column by Dr. Stan Trout

Continued from page 26...
I'll put forward my thoughts from the supply side and leave it to
someone else to state the other point of view.
If you look around at the technical people working in the US
magnet industry, you find that they fall into two broad camps. A
few, like me, were actually formally educated in the discipline
they are practicing. But far more common are technical people
who started with a good general background in science or engineering and learned their craft on the job. Some of these folks
even took one or more of my bootcamps to get themselves up
to speed.
On-job-training is a longstanding approach, that seems to be
working well enough in our industry. There is no shortage of
graduates with technical degrees. The only downside is finding
good people and the delay in getting a new person up to speed.
But there are ways to shorten this time, which turns out to be a
significant part of my business.
The other way to look at this question is from the point of view
of the universities. Today there are about a dozen institutions in
the US with a professor or two doing something related to permanent magnets or magnetic materials more generally. These
programs are turning out graduates at a small but steady rate. If
you look at where these graduates go, they rarely enter the US
permanent magnet industry. It is more common for them to remain academics, to work at a research lab, or even to take jobs
in China's magnet factories.
Universities are simply a minor player in staffing the US permanent magnet industry; the well-established path is on-jobtraining.
-SRT 3/9/2018

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