Williamson’s Energy Island Project
Preparing Graduates for Critical Positions in 21st Century Power Generation
Energy Island Mission
- Maximize safety
- Provide the highest instructional value
- Ensure our graduates are well prepared to enter industry
- Modernize facilities
- Include relevant power generation technologies for the foreseeable future
- Provide reliable power generation for campus
- Reduce fossil fuel consumption by improving efficiency
- Reduce annual energy costs
- Fit existing building architectural appearance
- Use funds wisely in a frugal manner as Isaiah Williamson would do
- Restore hands-on power generation experience that builds responsibility, expertise and confidence
- Apply academic principles from the classroom to true-to-life plant experience
- Improve on the well-established real-life leadership and management skills training for operations and maintenance
- Learn and work in modern labs that duplicate on-the-job conditions
- Experience a wider variety of fuel and generation sources and current state of the art digital controls
- Learn and practice energy economics in power generation by utilizing several fuels and including renewable power options
- Learn how to maintain as well as operate modern power equipment
- Combine local internships in nuclear, fossil and hydro power generation with a campus-based living laboratory that replicates full-scale power plants
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