South Dakota State receives $150,000 for green education

Prairie Business
Published June 11 2010

BROOKINGS, S.D. — South Dakota State University’s mechanical engineering and agricultural and biosystems engineering, in concert with allied departments, have each been awarded $75,000 from the South Dakota Department of Labor to promote green jobs training in the state.

“These grants provide a wonderful opportunity for SDSU to fulfill its mission as the state’s land-grant institution,” said Michael Twedt, director of the Wind Application Center at State.

The first DOL grant, received by a team of faculty from the departments of agricultural and biosystems engineering, biology and microbiology, nutrition and food science, and engineering technology management, will deliver two courses and a workshop for people starting or advancing their careers in the ethanol and bio-energy industries, according to professor K. Muthukumarappan of the SDSU Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department.

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