Obama to visit CMU next week

President Barack Obama will visit Carnegie Mellon University next Friday to highlight the importance of manufacturing to the U.S. economy, according to a White House official.

The president will present steps that government, industry and universities will take together to create new industries and new jobs. He will discuss cross-cutting technologies meant to enhance the global competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing and speed ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor.

No other details of the visit have been released.





First published on June 17, 2011 at 12:20 pm