Seated in a college classroom in Kokomo, Rod Patterson listens intently as a professor describes how motors power an electric car.
A middle-aged senior manufacturing engineer, Patterson is no ordinary student. He’s part of the larger transition in the Indiana economy.
Across the state, companies are trying to find what comes next to lift them up from the shattered remains of the recession.
Delphi, a 1,500-employee auto-parts maker in Kokomo, has sent Patterson and 287 other engineers it employs back to school for an hour or two each week to study electric autos.
At stake, of course, are jobs. Just how well Indiana companies such as Delphi can innovate and develop new products will help determine how many jobs the state will create to replace those lost over the past three years.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Indiana's recovery depends on innovation | The Journal Gazette | Fort Wayne, IN
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