Students participating in BT Cast Iron Chips gain valuable experience by working within a real manufacturing business that serves customers throughout North America and around the world. While maintaining professional business practices, students develop skills in customer service, order fulfillment, inventory management, quality systems, logistics, marketing, and business operations.
The program complements classroom learning by providing opportunities to apply technical and professional skills in a real-world business environment.
Unlike a classroom simulation, BT Cast Iron Chips operates as a functioning business that supplies an industry-standard product used by manufacturers, testing laboratories, and researchers.
Students are exposed to the expectations of a professional manufacturing environment while contributing to a business that delivers products to customers across the globe. This combination of education and real industry experience provides students with practical skills that are difficult to gain in a traditional classroom setting.