September 2019 Vol. 74 No. 9
Newsline
TC Energy Funding ‘Pipeline Academy’ at Louisiana Technical College
A Louisiana technical college has received a $1 million donation from TC Energy to enable students to gain hands-on pipeline experience at its new “pipeline academy.”
The money for the program and state-of-the-art Process Technology Center at Sowela Technical Community College includes classroom equipment, instructor funding, and a real pipeline training loop. The pipeline will not carry any material, but students will be able to hone their skills on a real pipeline.
“They actually will build an actual pipeline training loop. It carries no material, but it will be built on campus so individuals can come and train on actual pipeline. There’s classroom equipment, they provide funding for the instructor, and some of the planning that million dollars will be used for,” said SOWELA Chancellor Neil Aspinwall.
The program is scheduled to launch in fall 2020 and a waiting list is expected upon opening. Sowela did not specify how many students would be admitted into the program.
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