TVA Joins Effort To Help Military Veterans Fill Region’s Technical, Scientific Needs
TVA has signed on to an initiative begun by the Department of Energy to provide engineering employment and educational opportunities in Tennessee for America’s military veterans.
TVA is among several of Tennessee’s top technical, engineering and educational companies, institutions and organizations in the greater Oak Ridge-Knoxville area that have teamed together to create this unique consortium.
The new program, which focuses on the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics, is called “America’s Veterans to Tennessee Engineers.”
The program is designed to offer military veterans an opportunity to complete an engineering degree that will lead directly to full-time employment with one of the area’s technical companies and institutions.
TVA is committed to filling a number of positions in its Fossil and Nuclear groups over the next several years under the auspices of this program.
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More about the program
The America’s Veterans to Tennessee Engineers program was made possible by regional business, government and academic institution education leaders working together on an initiative that was originally proposed by the Tennessee Valley Corridor Association.
Several senior leaders in DOE’s Y-12 facilities in Oak Ridge helped establish the program.
The program is intended to use educational opportunities to help veterans make a transition from military service to employment in needed technical and scientific fields.
The program will match military skills to future regional technical needs. It will seek to attract veterans with math and science skills into nuclear, chemical, mechanical, electrical or civil-engineering careers. The program will offer part-time employment, community sponsors and academic mentors while matching graduates with engineering and technical jobs.
The search for candidates for this program is well under way through the work of an interim program Steering Committee representing participating educational organizations and industry. Several veterans have already been selected and are participating.
The program is expected to grow incrementally throughout 2009 to a sustained level of 30 participants per year.
More information about the program is available online at
www.y12.doe.gov/jobs/stem.
