President Obama is scheduled to address the nation from the campus of Carnegie Mellon University at 11am EDT today. The President’s speech is expected to focus on American innovation and competitiveness:

The president will be highlighting the importance of manufacturing to the U.S. economy, as well as key steps that government, industry and universities will take together to create new industries and new jobs. He will deliver remarks on the need to focus on cross-cutting technologies that will enhance the global competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing and speed up ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor.

 

The visit will take place at Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), where he will see a range of cutting-edge technologies that have the potential to transform and assist the manufacturing sector, from crowd-sourced vehicles and next-generation robots, to modeling and simulation.

Watch the event live here. And for those who can’t make the live web stream, we’ll have a recap on this blog following the event.

(Contributed by Erwin Gianchandani, CCC Director)