OTC’s new manufacturing center to help students, employers, school and local economy
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – Ozarks Technical Community College in central Springfield has grown by leaps and bounds since it was established in 1990 but its latest expansion is the largest building project ever…the $40 million, 120,000 square-foot Robert W. Plaster Center for Advanced Manufacturing that’s still under construction at the corner of National and Chestnut Expressway.
Over its three decades of service to the area OTC has emphasized adding academic programs based on the needs out in the real world and this latest effort is no different.
”By the year 2030 over two million jobs in advanced manufacturing will go unfilled in the United States,” pointed out Robert Randolph, the Executive Director of the new facility. “And our community is poised to address that shortage very well with the opening of this center.”
Scheduled to open next fall, the PMC’s programs of study including drafting/design, manufacturing…
