Colorado School of Mines and Arapahoe Community College have been chosen to participate in the Battery Workforce Challenge sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and global automaker Stellantis.
The Mines-ACC team is one of just 12 selected across North America for the three-year competition in which student teams are tasked to design, build, test and integrate an advanced EV battery into a future Stellantis vehicle. With the goal of building the next generation of engineers, technicians and workers to address the unprecedented demand for a domestic EV workforce, the competition will provide an immersive hands-on learning experience for all students to gain valuable engineering skills that transcend the classroom environment.
Read the full article here from the Mines Newsroom.