The full story
The grant was issued through the Jobs and Education for Texans, or JET, program through the TWC and will go toward a controlled distillation unit for students in the college’s process technology program, according to the release.
The hope is for the new equipment to enhance training for students in the program, which includes training for processing jobs for various industries such as refining, petrochemical, oil and gas, food, metals and minerals, according to the college’s website.
ACC Process Technology chair Don Parus said in the release the equipment will allow students in the program to “work on a true industrial scale unit.”
“The unit will permit extended runs so students can experience working on shift, sharing unit logs between shifts, relieving shift workers and taking sampling to validate the separation results,” Parus said in the release. “These are all required skills that each process technician must learn to be a qualified plant operator.”
The background
The JET program provides funding for equipment at various educational institutions across the state with the purpose of developing career skills in “high-demand occupations,” according to the release.
ACC received one of the 60 grants, which totaled $15 million, issued in December from the TWC, according to the release.
