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CU Cleantech Program Selects Mentors
Six executives with business backgrounds have been selected by the University of Colorado’s CleanTech Program to help student entrepreneurs and federal researchers ready their projects for the commercial market.
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CU-Boulder Offering Professional Certificate
in Renewable Energy
The graduate-level professional certificate program is open to executives, managers, investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in a deeper understanding of the renewable energy industry. Applications are now being accepted for the Spring 2012 semester.
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Green Jobs: Boom, or Bust?
While the success of federal stimulus funding—both in terms of green jobs and otherwise—is indeed debatable, the ability of the private sector to create hundreds of thousands or even millions of green jobs provides a more promising outlook for future growth.
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CSU Gets Slice of $30 Million From DOE to Train Energy Efficiency Experts
The program enables engineering students to undertake energy assessments in a wide range of manufacturing facilities, providing real-world experience, while helping local industrial and manufacturing firms.
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Broomfield Company Sponsors Program to Launch National Center to Educate Entrepreneurial Engineers
MWH Global is sponsoring a new national entrepreneurship center through Stanford’s School of Engineering. The center, which launches next month, is intended to address the critical need for innovative and entrepreneurial engineers in the U.S.
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SEI Expands Solar Classes
The new course from the Carbondale-based training organization is designed specifically for those who are interested in going into the sales and marketing end of the solar energy industry, rather than working in a technical capacity.
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Denver Top Five Hub for Oil and Gas Professionals
With 10 of the nation’s 100 largest natural gas fields and three of its 100 largest oil fields in Colorado, the city is located in the middle of some of the “hottest oil and gas plays in the continent.”
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CSU Facilities Engineer Honored at Renewable Energy Event
Dollard received the award as part of the annual Colorado Renewable Energy Society conference concluded over teh weekend in Fort Collins. “She is a tireless advocate of clean and renewable energy alternatives and is well deserving of this honor,” said CSU’s Amy Parsons.
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Business, Labor, Community Leaders Launch Skills2Compete Campaign
The non-partisan program focused on ensuring Colorado’s workforce has the skills needed to meet business demand, foster innovation, and achieve economic prosperity.
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Ecotech’s Impressive New Digs in Aurora
Students are now taking classes in the career college’s freshly minted facility at 1400 South Abilene Street. The school has transformed a vacant, large-footprint building into a progressive campus focused on educating future particpants in the renewable energy and sustainability industries.
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CEO Says Oil Industry Faces Engineer Staffing Shortage
The number of young recruits hired to replace aging petroleum engineers has declined over the last 10 years, as many college graduates choose managerial positions over engineering jobs and other field assignments, said Andrew Gould, chairman and CEO of Schlumberger Ltd.
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Training Scholarships for Green Companies Available
The Pikes Peak Workforce Center (PPWFC) and the State Energy Sector Partnership have announced that companies in the energy efficient or renewable energy fields may be eligible for training scholarships for their qualified employees.
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Class in Session: Guest Entry Shares RETool Experience
It has been touted as a critical opportunity for ushering in a cleaner energy economy. With entrepreneurs like Adrian Tuck (Tendril) out there trying to change the way we use electricity, the smart grid is hard to ignore.
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Student Report — Attending RETool Course, CU-Boulder
What impressed me about this session on renewable power were the diverse professional backgrounds of those in attendance, including professionals from the aeronautical, banking, software, education, and oil and gas industries, just to name a few.
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EnergyLogic Expands Training Facility — Potential New Job Opportunities for 500 Students Per Year
The company tells Colorado Energy News its expansion at the Berthoud training facility is to meet the demand for accredited home energy auditors and raters. Up to 500 students per year will take classes in the 3,600 square-foot facility in Berthoud.
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Redstone Ramps Up — The College Celebrates First Enrollment Class for Wind Tech Program
The school is one of a small group of colleges using an actual wind turbine, which will be converted to a ground-floor wind lab. It is partnering with nearby wind energy heavyweights like Vestas, Suzlon, and RES Americas in an effort to become a major pipeline for their employment needs.
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Shale Gas = $Billions in U.S. Savings
Natural gas prices that slumped to a 10-year low this month could save U.S. consumers $16.5 billion on home energy bills over the course of a year, according to a senior economist at the U.S. Federal Reserve. Projected over several years, the savings could exceed any proposed tax cut.
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