Keeping current can require ten or more training days per year. Highly paid technical staff can become obsolete in a changing technical environment. Participation in new development projects may require 100 days or more of intensive re-skilling. AIM makes available local and relevant, high-quality opportunities for technical education that once required travel to major cities in other States. Nebraska universities and colleges are also technology education sources.
Academic programs are crucial for qualifying new employees for technical jobs.
These programs have sometimes been insufficient for local business needs. AIM facilitates cooperation of academic and corporate members, aligning this resource to meet needs. As a result, two universities have added a college of information technology and another added an institute of technology. Dozens of courses and hundreds of evening and Saturday seats have already been added at Nebraska post-secondary schools. And AIM has partnered with Nebraska High Schools to bring technology curriculum and classes there, priming the pipleline for Nebraska's colleges and Universities.