An AtkinsRéalis-led Department of Energy contractor has donated $1.5-million to help renovate the Advanced Manufacturing Center at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Shawnee State is designated as an “opportunity college” by the Carnegie Foundation and is Ohio’s only open-access public university, according to the school’s website. Shawnee State is located near DOE’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio.
The donation was announced in a Nov. 21 press release by Mission Conversion Services Alliance, a joint venture led by AtkinsRéalis with partners Westinghouse and Amentum.
“This amount of funding will allow us to complete the expansion of the Advanced Manufacturing Center,” Adam Miller, interim dean of the College of Business and Engineering Technology said in the release. “It’s going to help build capacity to support more students going through these programs [such as robotics and automation] and prepare them for in demand careers but also support the manufacturing that is coming to the region.”
Mission Conversion has the Operations and Site Services Support Contract for the Portsmouth and Paducah Sites in Ohio and Kentucky. The contract, which started in June, runs through September 2030 and is valued at more than $2.3 billion.