Change Your Life With FAME USA

Ready for a well-paying career with attractive benefits right now?
FAME is a paid experience training program that prepares you for the manufacturing careers of tomorrow, today.

The FAME Technical Center

The Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education, within the Manufacturing Institute, is the premier advanced manufacturing workforce education and development program. FAME helps students become highly skilled, globally competitive, well-rounded and sought-after talent that can meet the unique needs and challenges of today’s modern manufacturing workforce. Every year, FAME graduates’ transition into well-paying, diverse career pathways in critical disciplines across the manufacturing industry and across the country.

The college-side experience of the FAME AMT program takes place in a shop floor emulation, the FAME Technical Center; this is the advanced manufacturing center for training AMTs.  We have provided a tour below to help you better understand the training experience. As you tour, note the small, white dots--click these to learn more about the various elements of the Technical Center, as well as how we use these elements to conduct the FAME AMT training.

Technical Manufacturing Skills

Mastering a multiskilled technical skill set, including electricity, robotics, fluid power, mechanics, fabrication (welding and machining), industrial troubleshooting, and more.

Manufacturing Core Exercises

These exercises will prepare you to contribute to a safe and highly efficient, cost effective workplace. These include Safety Culture, Visual Workplace Organization, Lean Manufacturing, Problem Solving, and Machine Reliability.

Professional Behaviors

Work Attendance, Initiative, Diligence, Interpersonal Relations, Teamwork, and Verbal and Written Communication will provide you with critical skills and capabilities to be a successful and accomplished employee.

FAME is Right for You if You Are...

  • Career-oriented and seeking rewarding work with attractive benefits
  • Interested in graduating debt-free
  • Value hands-on training and education
  • Aspire to work for some of the biggest and best employers in the country
  • Interested in pursuing a manufacturing and STEM-related career path
  • Aim to advance quickly in your career to pursue the lifestyle you want

Ready to take the first step towards a successful, well-paying career path?

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FAME USA Locations

FAME is driving the future of the manufacturing industry by building cohesive cooperatives of manufacturers to implement this proven model of skilled training.

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FAME Program FAQs

Candidates for FAME should be career-oriented, academically prepared students seeking rewarding work who thrive within highly regimented, hands-on programs and are aiming to advance quickly in their career. All participants must be college-ready high school graduates interested in pursuing a concentrated two-year, debt-free degree and looking to gain a practical set of valuable and transferable technical skills.

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