The annual event hosted by Vaughn’s Engineering and Technology Department featured
presentations from industry experts and STEM workshops for local community colleges and high
school students.
FLUSHING, N.Y., Nov. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Vaughn College celebrated National Manufacturing Month with its 11th Annual Manufacturing Day on Friday, November 7 to highlight new developments in the field and address the growing need for workers. The event is run by the College’s Engineering and Technology Department.
Michael Wroblewski delivers a presentation on munition technology.
Bilal Siddique gives a presentation on bridging the gap between engineering and management.
High school students work on creating their own drones.
“What was so special about this year’s presentations was that every speaker was a Vaughn graduate,” said Dr. Hossein Rahemi, engineering and technology department chair. “These alumni are contributing what they learned at the College and sharing their knowledge with the next generation of students to help foster their success.”
The event included a manufacturing leadership session on engineering innovation and current manufacturing advancements. The speakers included Daniel Doscher ’23, mechatronics engineer at ArcBest Technologies, Ariel Ferrera ’20, co-founder of Hoppion, Bilal Siddique ’12, senior project manager at Honeywell Building Solutions and Michael Wroblewski ’14, business development and product manager for CIRCOR Aerospace & Defense.
“I have always cherished my time as a student at Vaughn and it always felt like family here,” said Wroblewski. “I hope to spread awareness about accelerating the impact in munition technology, which is probably something nobody thinks about, while educating Vaughn students who are sitting in the same seat I sat in several years ago.”
Students from Vaughn’s Robotics, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV), and Rover Clubs hosted STEM workshops for local community colleges and high schools, including Bayside, Hillcrest, Freeport, and Uniondale High Schools, St. Catharine Academy in the Bronx and Health, Arts, Robotics and Technology (H.A.R.T) High School in Cambria Heights. Students had the opportunity to learn about robotics design and autonomous programming, fly drones, and practice their rover design and manufacturing process skills.
A joint study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte predicts that 3.8 million manufacturing jobs will likely be needed in the next decade and approximately half (1.9 million) are expected to go unfilled due to the widening talent and applicant gaps.
Last month, Vaughn College received a $125,000 grant from the GE Aerospace Foundation as part of its new flagship program to increase the number of highly skilled manufacturing workers by 10,000 beginning in 2026. The grant will support new training equipment at Vaughn and the expansion of current aviation maintenance faculty and curriculum.
ABOUT VAUGHN COLLEGE
Founded in 1932, Vaughn College is a private, nonprofit four-year college that enrolls more than 1,400 students in master’s, bachelor’s, and associate degree programs in engineering, technology, management, and aviation on its main campus in New York City and online. The student-faculty ratio of 16 to 1 ensures a highly personalized learning environment. Ninety-seven percent of Vaughn College graduates, seventy-seven percent in their field of study, are placed in professional positions or choose to continue their education within one year of graduation. Vaughn College serves many first-generation Americans and first-generation college students and is recognized by the US Department of Education as a Hispanic-serving institution. In a study conducted by The Equality of Opportunity Project and reported in The New York Times, Vaughn was ranked number one in upward mobility nationwide. For more information on Vaughn College, please visit http://www.vaughn.edu.
SOURCE Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
