Toyota Cultivating Engineering Talent

Posted on October 11, 2008  Comments (2)

Toyota has a knack for cultivating engineering talent

Toyota now has more than 1,000 York Township employees dedicated to conducting engineering services on vehicles for the North American market. Early on in its expansion project, the Japanese automaker displayed a canny understanding of how to cultivate talent and acquire engineers fresh out of college.

Toyota established a two-year internship program for recent engineering graduates at schools like the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Lawrence Technological University and the University of Wisconsin. At the end of the two-year period, the automaker and the employee reach a mutual decision about whether the employee should continue working there.

Bruce Brownlee, senior executive administrator for external affairs for the Toyota Planning Center at the Toyota Technical Center, has said the company generated a “large pipeline” for engineering talent by leveraging the internship program.

Related: Engineering Internships – Toyota Engineering Development Process – Toyota Robots – Toyota k-12 Science Grants – Toyota Production System (TPS) management blog posts

2 Responses to “Toyota Cultivating Engineering Talent”

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    October 13th, 2008 @ 4:49 pm

    “At just about 9.8 feet long, 5.5 feet wide and 4.9 feet tall, Toyota certainly has pulled of a near engineering miracle with the amount of stuff they’ve crammed into this tiny vehicle…”

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    “By the time graduation rolls around, students will have had three six-week apprenticeships and received industry certifications in computer-assisted design and other applications…”

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