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Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Notre Dame
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<p>From the ND Website</p>

<p>The University of Notre Dame is one of the recipients of a $6.1 million federal stimulus grant to develop degree and training programs for electric vehicles, President Barack Obama announced Wednesday (Aug. 5) during a speech in Wakarusa, Ind.</p>

<p>The Indiana Advanced Electric Vehicle Training and Education Consortium will be led by Purdue University and also includes Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Ivy Tech Community College, Purdue University Calumet and Indiana University Northwest. The consortium’s goal is to educate and train the workforce needed to design, manufacture and maintain advanced electric vehicles and associated infrastructure.</p>

<p>As part of the effort, Notre Dame will offer an electric vehicle concentration as part of its B.S./M.S. engineering degree, with a special emphasis on fuel cells. The University also will make an electric vehicle class offered by Peter Bauer, a professor of electrical engineering, accessible through Purdue’s cyber infrastructure.</p>

<p>The project will deliver degree and certificate programs to support advanced electric vehicle technology in Indiana, the Midwest and the nation. The consortium’s organizers estimate that each year these programs will matriculate 300 degree/certificate students in electric vehicle technology and an additional 2,000 students will have taken at least one course in this technology.</p>

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<p>Dr, Chu (Nobel Prize winner) and the current Sec of Energy said recently that he does not support fuel cells.</p>

<p>Also, engineering students should not try to over specialize in one particular subset of engineering, rather be a broad as possible in chem e, mech e, ee, etc…</p>

<p>A real waste of money here, this is just like the hype on nano-tech that colleges are setting up “center’s of excellence”…</p>

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<p>Someone sounds particularly bitter.</p>

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<p>Amen, CitricAcid. Add to the bitterness the fact that his/her posts are continually filled with poor grammar, bad punctuation, and misspellings. It’s difficult to take a person like that seriously.</p>