An annual review of manufacturing by the ISU Extension and Outreach Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS) shows manufacturing employment increased 2.5 percent in 2011 from the previous year. However, employment in this sector is still 10 percent lower than pre-recession levels in 2007.

Liesl Eathington, assistant scientist with the Department of Economics, and author of the review, says that in the past year "we look to be gaining back some of the jobs we lost during the recession." Read the full article by ISU News Service reporter Angie Hunt at: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2013/01/11/manufacturingreview