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Students will watch Let’s Go Career Videos on logistics and transportation engineers. The students will complete learning activities to learn about the basics of working as an engineer for Boeing...
Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
"Doing business in America means moving people, raw materials, and products by road, rail, air, and water. To keep things moving requires millions of workers in supporting industries such as infrastructure planning and management, logistics, and maintenance of vehicles and facilities."
Pathways to Success: Transportation, Distribution & Logistics. Accessed October 1, 2015. ed.sc.gov
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Thomas Jones is an import team leader at John S. James Co., an international freight forwarder and customs brokerage company. Growing up in Charleston, Thomas has always been fascinated by the...
Video
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Hilda (Lola) Salas is a professional truck driver at Hunter Transportation. At the age of eight, she became fascinated when she saw a woman truck driver and had wanted to become one every since. Lola...
Video
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Vijay Soni is a Mechanical Systems Design Engineer for the 787 at Boeing in South Carolina. "A design engineer is someone who initially starts off with product development and then goes into a...
Video
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Kristina Mauger is the 787 Production Engineering Director at Boeing in South Carolina. Kristina started with the company in 2007 as a liaison engineer on the 747. She has always wanted a career in...
Video
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Green Energy Biofuel recycles waste vegetable oil and cooking oil into usable, clean biofuel. Company founder, "Bio Joe" Renwick has dedicated years to researching and perfecting biofuel production...
Video
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Name: Kelvin Smith Job Title: Electrician Helper Workplace: SCSPA Education: Associate’s Degree Favorite Subject(s) in School: History, English First Real Job: Cashier at KFC Dream Job: Professional...
Video
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Adrianne Beasley, Director of Aerospace Initiatives for the South Carolina Council on Competitiveness, shares the purpose behind offering aerospace vocational training classes to South Carolina high...
Video
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Automotive technicians inspect, maintain, and repair cars and trucks, often with the help of computers. They typically work on brake and hydraulic systems, exhaust, fuel ignition and electrical...
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Host Ray Davis with the South Carolina Department of Education talks with experts in varying Career Clusters about the future of jobs in those fields in South Carolina.