Guest column: Sheree Utash, president of WSU Tech

Wichita, in the middle of the country, in the middle of Kansas, is the aviation capital of the world. Today Spirit AeroSystems designs, tests and manufactures fuselage and other large components for Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Mitsubishi and Rolls-Royce. Every day they search for highly skilled technical workers, from sheet metal to avionics to aerospace mechanics to people who paint those shiny new planes.