A year-long work and study program which will give young Americans with degrees in industrial engineering or production management a period of apprenticeship in key industrial plants in Israel, will begin next September, it was announced by the Jewish Agency here today.
The program will be supervised by four American industrial engineering experts supplied by the United States Technical Cooperation Administration. The experts will conduct a two-month orientation course, after which members of the group will be assigned to 50 industrial plants chosen among key trades. Their project under the supervision of the TCA experts will be to investigate the planning, lay-outs, material handling systems, coats, and personnel procedures in these plants with a view to increasing productivity and efficiency.
The group will be limited to 60 industrial engineer graduates of American universities and of the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. The Americans will be quartered at Bet Berl, Kfar Saba, with all expenses paid, including a spending allowance. Transportation to and from Israel is included.
The program, designed to meet Israel’s growing needs for skilled industrial planning and production personnel, was established this year by the National Productivity Institute of the Israel Ministry of Labor. Cooperating are the Manufacturers Association of Israel, the Israel Federation of Labor and the Israel Association of Engineers and Architects. The program is sponsored in the United States by the Jewish Agency.
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