University's Engineering Academy—which allows qualifying students to enroll in its College of Engineering, complete two years of core coursework at a community college and earn engineering degrees in College Station—aims to fill gaps in the number and diversity of state practitioners.
The North Carolina Dept. of Labor issued fines to two Charlotte-based companies for safety violations after three workers fell to their deaths and two others were injured in January.
To operate underground Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for waste storage, US Energy Dept. must update public on efforts to identify another nuclear repository site out of state.
Work on the estimated $1.3B span has launched a restart following an agreement between the Panamanian government and the Chinese joint venture set to build it,
Coolidge gas power plant project, delayed one year by community legal action over air pollution impacts, now is set to double in capacity after a new settlement—but that is a decrease from the originally proposed 820-MW expansion that a Kiewit Corp. unit was hired to build.