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SIEP: Public - Private Partnership Between Education and Industry
The Arizona Office of Business Workforce Development (BWD) met with several of the local semiconductor manufacturers (at the close of the twentieth century) and based on their feedback, realized that the Greater Phoenix area had a huge, heretofore-untapped resource to address the desperate need for highly-trained and educated workers: the Maricopa Community College District. The MCCD is the second-largest community college system in the country, comprising almost 200,000 students spread out over ten separate campus locations. To better leverage this competitive advantage, the BWD (with input from local hightech employers) created the “Semiconductor Industry/Education Partnership” or SIEP. The SIEP is a unique and formal partnership between private companies, state workforce developers and the community college system; with a goal of creating a curriculum and increasing enrollments to close the “gold collar gap” between high-tech (and wellpaying) jobs and available, qualified applicants.
http://www.knowyourregion.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69:siep-public-private-partnership-between-education-and-industry&catid=37:case-studies&Itemid=76
Written by Katie Fehrenbacher
Posted February 11th, 2009 at 7:41 am in Energy

Despite the fact that solar thermal companies like Ausra are pulling back on the business model of “bigger is better” solar farms, massive solar deals are still being done. This morning utility Southern California Edison says it’s reached an agreement on “the world’s largest solar deal” with Oakland-based solar thermal startup BrightSource Energy. The deal is for 1.3 GW across seven projects, the first of which will be built in Ivanpah, Calif.
That massive size trumps the huge deal BrightSource already has with northern California utility Pacific Gas & Electric to build a potential 900MW of power from five large solar thermal plants. BrightSource is actually developing the plant in Ivanpah to accommodate 300 MW for its PG&E deal and another 100 MW for its SCE contract, says BrightSource’s Keely Wachs, senior director of corporate communications. In total, BrightSource has 4.2 GW of solar sites under development, Wachs says.
Of course, developing 4.2 GW of solar power in the deserts of California takes massive funds — the five plants with PG&E will cost on the order of $2-3 billion. The SCE deal will likely cost a bit more than that. And it’s certainly not a good time to raise project financing for solar plants. Reuters had reported that BrightSource hadn’t secured financing for its first plant for the deal with PG&E and was waiting for funds from the stimulus package before starting construction. The company has raised more than $160 million, including a massive $115 million Series C round announced in May. Investors include Google.org, BP Alternative Energy, StatoilHydro Venture, Black River, VantagePoint Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley, DBL Investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Chevron Technology Ventures.
Massive solar farms also take a long time to get regulatory approval. BrightSource had been facing possible regulatory delays for its first projects and had been attending hearings on how to streamline the approval process. The first plant in Ivanpah for SCE isn’t expected to be operating until early 2013.
But BrightSource’s contract with SCE shows the firm is still doing major deals while others are pulling back in this tough economic climate. BrightSource uses a central power tower design, which includes an array of mirrors that reflect the sun’s light onto a central receiver full of water, creating steam and powering a turbine.
http://earth2tech.com/2009/02/11/so-cal-edison-and-brightsource-sign-huge-13gw-solar-deal
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Internet Industry
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Each node in the network represents a company
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Industry Education School-to-Work ...
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Hypermedia Lab
Now lab develops several new international partnership programs in
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Workforce Development in the Grocery Industry
Sales and Service Voluntary Partnership Steering Committee ...
job training and continuing
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Environmental Education Barter Network
Business & industry - education, Communications Strategy
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Akzo Nobel
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Intergraph - Education Programs
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professionals ... Geospatial Solutions has international
partnerships with the ... development activities
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The Reliability, Maintainability
and Supportability Partnership
http://www.rmspartnership.com/
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of interest to manufacturers.
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(VRI)
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of Energy 10/02
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Energy (DOE) grants in concert with an industry partner,
JX Crystals of Issaquah, WA. Final
installation and finishing was supported by the MURI Dept. of Defense grant.
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sufficient resources. The SBC Excelerator program illustrates
the potential that can be realized through public/private partnerships."
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sbc_excelerator
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Workforce-Excellence Network
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Workforce programs around the country use this network as a
clearinghouse. Plenty of partners .www.workforce-excellence.net/
10/02
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NAWB Online – Business-led workforce
boards that plan programs, consult for U.S. competitiveness.
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