The Washburn Institute of Technology, Business and Industry area’s main focus is to build relationships with established and new local businesses and industry as well as with potential business and industry clients, creating workable training solutions to meet their production or employees’ needs. This is accomplished by working together to develop an inventory of training programs to meet each company’s training requirements. These training programs have the ability to be modified to meet the numerous changes in today’s fast-paced technologies, using each company’s current resources. Tech’s Business and Industry area strives to create a training schedule in a manner designed to keep costs down and time away from the employee’s work duties to a minimum. The Business and Industry area also works with various government agencies, pursuing avenues to ensure the continued growth of our  workforce and designed to aid initiatives to attract new businesses to our region. The Business and Industry area strives to be a consistent and reliable force in the growth, development and improvement of the  workforce through collaboration with businesses, industry and government agencies.