Technical Education

Michigan launched the EV Scholars program, a $10,000 scholarship for students who accept job offers as electric engineers or software developers at 15 companies partnering with the state, to staff growing industries.

Arizona State University is planning a $200 million investment to make its Polytechnic campus in southeast Mesa an epicenter for advanced manufacturing students interested in electric vehicles and batteries.

Micron Technology expects to need 1,000 technicians and 1,000 engineers to operate each of four planned chip-fab facilities in Clay, New York, and area colleges are gearing their courses to help fill those positions.

A conference at Hood College in Maryland this week coached educators on preparing young students for computer science and computational thinking with skills like pattern recognition, algorithmic design and analysis.

As part of a $10 million pledge to local schools and a talent pipeline for a planned manufacturing complex nearby, a computer chip company hosted free STEM activities this week at Liverpool Middle School in New York.

For their senior design project, civil engineering students at Montana Technological University are combining concrete with waste products in an effort to develop a mixture that would reduce concrete's carbon footprint.

A New York district has infused design-thinking into courses all students take, bringing coding into subjects like English and social studies, and teaming with vendors to give teachers and students access to experts.

Riverland Community College in Minnesota is building capacity to train technicians in manufacturing and logistics, as well as launching a new robotics certificate program and planning a robotics degree in the future.

The new legislation, slated to take effect in 2025, will add graduation requirements, provide for the training and certification of teachers and make technology courses available to adult education outlets.

Eastern Iowa Community Colleges launched their annual Women in IT Conference last week with a keynote from a Davenport North High School student who founded a nonprofit to provide tech support to local veterans.

Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly unveiled a new initiative, "Gig City Goes Quantum," for which the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Chattanooga State Community College will boost training in quantum technologies.

Through a pair of grants totaling $400,000, Old Dominion University is developing a pair of "lab schools" — one aimed at creating a technology talent pipeline in Chesapeake and the other focused on the maritime field.

Pima County's local college, technical education district and tech centers have collectively invested millions in renovations and expansions in recent years to boost technology-focused workforce-development programs.

A senior computer-science major at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee is working on a web-based application that digitizes paperwork for Her Future Coalition, a nonprofit for human trafficking victims in India and Nepal.

Twenty-four founders of tech companies in Alabama endorsed the college's request for a one-time infusion of public money, advising the state not to lose a valuable part of its talent pipeline for the innovation sector.

Onondaga Community College's new supply chain management degree will help prepare a workforce for a massive computer memory chip plant planned for construction by Micron Technologies in Clay.

The CIA Mission Possible Operation Advance Technology competition will invite educators across the U.S. to vie for computer and coding laboratories outfitted with $60,000 worth of technology.

Planned academic restructuring at the university will include a new School of Emerging and Applied Technologies, which will accommodate a new cybersecurity degree as well as programs on data science, VR/AR and AI.