Officials from Texas A&M University-Texarkana and Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) will gather in TAMUT’s building for Academic and Student Services Friday, November 8th to announce a $250,000 grant from the American Electric Power Foundation to the university’s College of Business, Engineering, and Technology. The event will include a check presentation and will feature remarks from TAMUT administration and faculty as well as representatives from SWEPCO. The announcement will take place at 10:00 a.m. in room 247 of the Building for Academic and Student Services.
The grant will be used to construct a Computer Aided Design (CAD) lab and will be completed in two phases. The first phase of the CAD lab will contain 24 state-of-the-art CAD workstations and an instructor lecture workstation. Large screen video projection systems will also be included for instruction and display of project designs. Software available on the workstations will include CAD software and CAM (Manufacturing Aided Engineering). The CAD lab will also include new 3D printers and a 2D printer to document and fabricate student designs.
