citizens. The WMU Parkview campus, home to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the University’s Business Technology and Research Park, celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Part of the BTR Park’s success rests in its ability to connect community and industry needs with the resources available from faculty research and expertise. Reflecting long-term about CAViDS’ future, Liou thinks that the Center will help to keep engineering and knowledge-based jobs here in Michigan. “The Center’s activities can help keep work here instead of outshoring (outsourcing) it to China and other up-and-coming industrial countries,” says Liou. These are worthy outcomes given the need in Michigan to transition its workforce from manufacturing to a technologically based economy, he notes. For more information, contact Dr. William Liou at william.liou@ wmich.edu.
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