GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A new offering has been approved for the UW System’s Green Bay campus.
The Board of Regents has signed off on the creation of a new engineering school.
“Long term, it’s about research and innovation and the next generation of businesses. Short term, it’s about providing the workforce pipeline that’s critical. This puts a flag into the ground that says ‘instead of our engineering students going to other states, that we’re able to actually change the flow of people and move them to this area.’”
Brown County Executive Troy Streckenbach says the university will now be able to offer a full four-year degree in mechanical engineering.
“The university has a strong partnership with NWTC. They were able to provide certain engineering curriculum, but not the full program.”
Streckenbach explains how the effort will be funded.
“Part of the approval from the Board of Regents was that the university could demonstrate that they could raise the funds privately to run the program for five years, and they were able to accomplish that.”
Streckenbach says the goal is to launch the program this fall, with it moving to the planned STEM innovation center the following September.
