INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE NEWS
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION’S $2.7 MILLION AWARD
TO FUND ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONSORTIUM AT IRSC
Kevin Cooper, IRSC
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of innovation
and business
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Indian River State College
has received a threeyear,
$2,735,771 award
from the National Science
Foundation to establish a
National Electric Vehicle
Consortium to help alleviate an immediate
shortage of skilled technical workers
across almost every sector of the fastgrowing
electric vehicle industry.
The consortium will focus on manufacturing,
installation, operations, maintenance,
repair, vehicle conversion, safety
and standards, and emerging technological
advances within the EV sector.
IRSC will lead efforts that link academic,
agency and industry experts across all EV
disciplines, including 15 community colleges,
19 industry partners, two research
universities, and NSF Advanced Technical
Education Centers and projects.
“It is estimated that the 1 billion lightduty
vehicles on the roads today consume
one-fourth of global primary oil and contribute
10 percent to global greenhouse
gas emissions,” says Kevin Cooper, IRSC
executive director of innovation and business
development. “A multidisciplinary
National Electric Vehicle Consortium is
critical to securing immediate and future
needs in the nation’s EV workforce and
helping address national resiliency and
environmental goals.”
Workforce projections estimate that an
all-EV industry will add 250,000 to 500,000
new high-paying jobs by 2030.
The consortium offers a venue for
collaboration among training providers
to support broad-scale outreach and
community-building among educational
institutions; industry, professional, trade,
and regulatory associations; educators;
and practicing technicians within the EV
ecosystem.
It will document workforce needs, skills
and competencies; collect data on academic
programs and curricular resources;
align academic programs and courses
with the industry sector
needs; and support
institutions of higher
education in adapting
and establishing new
EV programs.
“This synergistic EV
consortium is designed
with national solutions
in mind,” Cooper continues.
“It creates the first
critical mass
of experts
focused on
addressing
the need for EV technicians in the U.S.”
The grant was awarded to IRSC by the
NSF Division of Undergraduate Education
Advanced Technological Education, which
focuses on the education of technicians
for the advanced-technology fields that
drive the nation’s economy.
The NEVC at IRSC is scheduled to launch
July 1.
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