{"id":50565,"date":"2020-06-16T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=50565"},"modified":"2024-11-21T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T16:49:56","slug":"presidents-podcast-engineering-brighter-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2020\/06\/16\/presidents-podcast-engineering-brighter-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Podcast: Engineering Brighter Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Workforce Commission projects a 25 percent growth in engineering jobs statewide in the next decade. In response to this anticipated growth, ACC and Texas A&amp;M created the Texas A&amp;M-Chevron Engineering Academy at ACC. Supported by Chevron, the Academy provides students an opportunity to pursue their engineering degree in a co-enrollment program between Texas A&amp;M and ACC. ACC President\/CEO, Dr. Richard M. Rhodes, discusses the innovative academy with guests Dr. David Fonken, ACC Science, Engineering &amp; Math Dean, Shana Shaw, Engineering Professor and Texas A&amp;M-Chevron Engineering Academy Leading Professor, and ACC Engineering student, Jud Joyner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Workforce Commission projects a 25 percent growth in engineering jobs statewide in the next decade. In response to this anticipated growth, ACC and Texas A&amp;M created the Texas A&amp;M-Chevron Engineering Academy at ACC. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2020\/06\/16\/presidents-podcast-engineering-brighter-futures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3930,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15],"tags":[273,1903,3477,1586,3856],"class_list":["post-50565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","tag-engineering","tag-engineering-academy","tag-podcast","tag-presidents-podcast","tag-texas-am-engineering-academy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}