MARSHALL — Texas State Technical College in Marshall has been awarded a $633,000 Natural Science Foundation Advanced Technical Education grant as part of efforts to create a new liquefied natural gas specialized program in the process operations department.
After an application process that took three years, the department will be use the grant to open a new degree program specializing in liquefied natural gas.
“What we’re doing is helping to increase our portfolio of what we’re going to offer our students, but it’s also looking at the climate today in oil and gas and where it’s going in the future,” said Nicholas Cram, TSTC campus department chair for process operations . “I see it as a lot more opportunities.”
The grant will go toward the development of a curriculum in liquefied natural gas as well as research and implementation of a multiple entry and exit point system through MEME and Proficiency Based Education methods. The grant will include the development of curriculum and workforce training program.
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