Tired of hearing about jobs getting outsourced from Wichita?
So are Shawn Ehrstein from Wichita State University and Scott Yeakley from Beechcraft.
In the past year Ehrstein and Yeakley, aviation engineers, helped bring back to Wichita the equivalent of more than 50 aerospace jobs formerly outsourced, WSU officials said.
Leaders at WSU now say the partnership idea is so intriguing that they will try to replicate it: bringing back more jobs and redefining public-private partnerships in the future.
The idea they devised was unusual: