By Christina Henry, the Kitsap Sun
BREMERTON, Wash. – Thirteen students will enter the new Washington State University electrical engineering program at Olympic College at Bremerton this fall. Completion of the four-year degree comes with a nearly iron clad guarantee of lucrative employment.
“Every student who graduates from this program will have a job at the shipyard (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility), at Boeing, in the space industry, in industries that haven’t been invented yet,” said state Rep. Drew Hansen, D-Bainbridge Island, chairman of the House Higher Education Committee.
WSU has offered a four-year mechanical engineering degree at OC’s Bremerton campus since 2010. That program has 28 seniors and 26 juniors this year.
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