HydraForce hosts STEM event for Carmel engineering students
On Thursday, April 6, HydraForce hosted a group of 40 students from Carmel Catholic High School who are interested in becoming engineers.
The visit included tours of the HydraForce manufacturing plant and Innovation and Technology Center, presentations from employees in various engineering disciplines - product design, electronics, sales, application, and manufacturing engineering - and several hands-on activities, including creating an engineering drawing, diagraming a circuit, an electronics demonstration, and building a check valve.
"We were pleased to host these students from the engineering program at Carmel - it was the third school we have hosted this year for a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program, and the largest group," said Robyn Safron, human resources manager at HydraForce.
"HydraForce is a company that depends on the quality of its manufacturing and engineering as a competitive advantage, so we enjoyed the chance to give these promising young engineers what a typical day is like," said Jim Brizzolara, HydraForce president and founder.
"The study of engineering and other STEM fields is definitely a path to opportunity. Our management team reflects that, as many of them started with us as engineers or in manufacturing."
"Our engineering students really enjoyed the day," said John Titterton, engineering department chair and teacher at Carmel High School.
"HydraForce treated our students as the young adults and aspiring engineers that they are. The ability to see an actual manufacturing plant and assembly line, as well as to work directly with experienced design engineers, left a positive impression of engineering and manufacturing that our students will take with them as they go forward in their education."
HydraForce, based in Lincolnshire, designs and manufactures high performance hydraulic fluid power cartridge valves, custom manifolds and electrohydraulic controls.
The company employs about 775 people at its headquarters and machining center in Lincolnshire and Innovation Center in Vernon Hills.
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