How to get people back to work?

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - A high-level federal official praised the job creating efforts in the Miami Valley during a visit on Thursday.

Jay Williams, the Director of the Office of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers, spoke at the University of Dayton's Innovation Center.

He says the center is helping add jobs by partnering with companies to give students hands on experience.

Williams also visited the DMAX plant in Moraine.

He says the plant is manufacturing at its finest and shows why the auto industry is making a comeback in the region and the country as a whole.

He says future success depends on schools teaching students what businesses need them to know.

"It's the private sector that will fuel and create these jobs but only if we have an educational system that educates to the relative needs and demands of the corporations today," Williams says.

Added Robert Comparin from Emerson Climate Technologies, which is one of the companies partnering with the Innovation Center, "It's not a matter of simply having students who know how to perform the engineering calculations. We need students who are very creative and innovative.

Williams says there's still a lot of work to do to get people jobs again, but what he saw during his visit gives him hope it can get done.