Indiana State taking high-tech approach to product packaging
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“We have so many unfilled positions, it’s crazy.” Starting salaries for students graduating from the ISU program are between $50,000 and $75,000, James said. Now we’re focused much more on the structural side of design.” One key factor for delivery is having boxes that are designed to protect a product but take up as little space as possible and can be easily stacked with other packages. This brings their costs down.” The design and production of packaging materials has gone from a manual to a primarily digital process in the last five to 10 years, and ISU has been on the leading edge of those technological advancements, James said. And ISU students design packaging and test it on machines that take their creations and jostle, drop and compress them. The program recently received a $1.2 million in-kind gift from Esko, which makes software commonly used in the industry.