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(Gene - Instructor:) Most of the bridges and highways
and a lot of buildings in this country were built over
50 years ago. The design life of those is about 50 years.
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Our folks are going to be the folks that are going to be involved
in the design, the testing,the inspection and
getting these things built.
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The benefits that you see at the technical college versus
perhaps a more traditional university-type situation is that,
I think ... you get a lot more hands-on ...
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and that being said ... the faculty you find at technical college
have come from industry, they know what these folks need
to be able to do.
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When they get done here, they're very much
prepared to do their jobs.
(Erin - Student:) They took an industry experience
and they could bring it to the classroom, because this is not
a program where you can just read it from a textbook and
be able to teach it, efficiently anyway.
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This program ... I chose it because there's probably 15, 20 job
descriptions out there for what this program was.
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It has a lot of opportunities. My favorite part is you're
always learning something new.
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