UM: Auto Industry

A Washington Post article looks at the future for displaced auto workers and quotes Ann Marie Sastry, a UM engineering professor who’s leading a joint project between the university and GM, training some of the company’s engineers in advanced battery technology: “Will a lot of autoworkers enter programs and receive retraining? I don’t know. I can say this: Autoworkers’ jobs are going to change everywhere. There will be chip technologies, solar technologies. This is going to be an economy dominated by knowledge workers, not by somebody who we think of as being on an old assembly line.” [Source]