Fast Track to Fluid Power Creating New Fluid Power Experts at Triton College

Antigone Sharris is Chair and Full Time Faculty in the Engineering Technology Department of Triton College in River Grove, Illinois. Triton College is a Hub School is NFPA’s Fast Track to Fluid Power program, a workforce development initiative designed to create stronger connections between technical colleges, industry partners, and local teachers by engaging multiple education…

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Fluid Power Forum Explores How One Student Secured His Career in Fluid Power

On this episode of Fluid Power Forum, the industry-focused podcast series that highlights the people, technologies, and unique applications that are moving the industry forward, Josh Scarbrough, a student at Murray State University majoring in Electromechanical Engineering, discusses his involvement with NFPA’s workforce program and the many ways he’s become an active participant in the…

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Everything You Need to Know About NFPA’s Action Challenge

Heidi Kent is a middle school teacher at Ashby Public School in Minnesota. Today, we invited her into our forum to learn more about NFPA’s Fluid Power Action Challenge which takes place in schools across the country, including Heidi’s. Like what you hear? New episodes are released every other Monday. Subscribe to the podcast today…

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A Look at a Fluid Power Scholarship Winner’s First Year of College

On this episode of Fluid Power Forum, the industry-focused podcast series that highlights the people, technologies, and unique applications that are moving the industry forward, Trevor Burke, a mechanical engineering student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and a recent recipient of a fluid power scholarship from the National Fluid Power Association talks about…

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