Thanks to a nearly $1.9 million investment from the City of Corpus Christi, students at Del Mar College will soon receive more equipment and tools to be successful in their future careers.
On Tuesday, Corpus Christi City Council approved and awarded the money to Del Mar College Foundation after the Corpus Christi Regional Economic Development Corporation (CCREDC) advised the request. The monies will come from Type B funding and will be used to enhance and expand five of Del Mar’s most sought-after training programs.
“All of these different programs are going to be receiving assets, hard assets that help their students be able to have hands-on training,” Denise Kaufman, Del Mar College Foundation Donor Advising Officer said. “Those supported five programs are all going to be receiving items that are state of the art and allow our students to be prepared to step right in to the workforce.”
These are the college programs that will see the distributed investment:
- Industrial Instrumentation- $728,000
- Artificial Intelligence and Geospatial Visualization Laboratory- $128,000
- Engineering and Robotics- $154,370
- Chemistry Laboratory Technicians- $532,500
- Industrial Machining- $355,000