Thriving Aerospace Industry Creating Jobs in Mexico Angela Kocherga - KHOU.com
go to original February 3, 2015

QUERETARO, Mexico – The thriving aerospace industry in this prosperous state is creating thousands of new jobs in a region where generations of young people have migrated to the United States to work.

"People in the past didn't have these opportunities, said Jorge Vega, a student at the Aeronautics University. "That's why they immigrated to other states or outside the country to the United States," said Vega.

He's enrolled in a six week job training program at the university and does not have to pay for tuition or materials. The state covers half the cost. Nearby aerospace companies cover the other half.

"The curriculum is co-developed with companies," said Jorge Gutierrez de Velasco Rodriguez, rector of the Aeronautics University.

"The knowledge that our students and the skills that the students get at the end of the training courses are really pretty much close to what they will do or use at any plant," said Gutierrez.

And students of all levels learn skills that ensure they get jobs in the thriving industry from manufacturing, to aircraft maintenance to engineering.

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