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DoE Awards $2.5M to Develop Training Program on Clean Energy & Smart Grid Engineering
The Department of Energy has awarded $2.5 million for a joint UW/WSU project that will develop a program to train engineers in clean energy and smart grid engineering. Professor Anjan Bose from WSU and professor Mohamed El-Sharkawi from UW are the lead investigators of the project. This three-year project will set up a joint WSU-UW Northwest Workforce Training Center in Electric Power Engineering and is one of 54 around the U.S. set to receive Recovery Act funds for smart grid workforce training projects.
