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Program<\/h3>\n

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Technology-Human Integrated Knowledge Education and Research<\/h2>\n

THINKER is a graduate traineeship backed by the National Science Foundation where participating students in engineering graduate programs (including automotive, mechanical, industrial, human factors and computing) study collaboration, manufacturing, human behavior, and big data analysis along with special workshops in career education and planning. These students tackle industry-sponsored collaborative projects focusing on multi-level human and system research to solve complex manufacturing challenges.<\/p>\n

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Collaboration<\/h3>\n

Graduate students enrolled in THINKER will collaborate with teams of other graduate, undergraduate and technical college students on industry inspired research projects.<\/p>\n

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Communication<\/h3>\n

Throughout the program, students focus on building communication skills as they tackle research team projects to solve complex manufacturing challenges. <\/p>\n

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Critical Thinking<\/h3>\n

Critical thinking is an important aspect for program participants as they learn to interpret human and machine data to design systems that work on industrial problems.<\/p>\n

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Thinker Progress<\/h3>\n

Research<\/h2>\n

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Preparing graduates who are ready for today’s manufacturing challenges<\/p>\n

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Our Focus<\/h2>\n

THINKER is closely aligned with automotive manufacturing and research and its related industries located in the Upstate. Undergirding the program is a strong focus on generating new research that brings about sustainable solutions to the complex challenges of advanced manufacturing.<\/p>\n

Our research investigates interactions between humans and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT 4.0 paradigm). We expect this research will lead to the development of manufacturing enrichment technology such as wearable data devices for use in assembly and production, and smoother, more efficient integration of human-generated data with machine-generated data for enriched continuous improvement.<\/p>\n

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