University of Colorado at Colorado Springs engineering students will start designing parts for electric cars beginning in the fall of 2012. UCCS and University of Colorado Boulder faculty will join forces to teach courses in the design and implementation of electric vehicle drivetrains to new and retraining engineers. The university faculties won a five-year $954,000 grant [...] [...]
ITT Corporation, which has a division headquartered in the Springs, has re-organized branches of its companies. The company is spinning off its water technology and creating a defense company. ITT’s core business will continue under the ITT Corporation name. It will also retain ITT Mission Systems, the group headquartered in the Springs, which performs satellite [...] [...]
Human resource executives recommend that college graduates pursue engineering, health care and computer science degrees. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that computer science will be one of the fastest growing occupations during the next 10 years. The health sector is expected to add more jobs than any other industry – three million new salary [...] [...]