The DOE’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) selected Michigan Tech as one of 16 universities in the U.S. to receive a total of $16 million through the Providing Opportunities for Specialized Education in Critical Technologies (PROSPECT) Planning Prize. The prize recognizes and supports the winning universities’ commitment to advancing nationwide efforts to grow the skilled workforce required to produce, process, recover and recycle critical minerals in the United States while creating good-paying jobs.
“America has abundant natural resources, but we need the skilled workforce to turn those resources into economic drivers that will grow our economy and create new jobs,” said Assistant Secretary of Energy Audrey Robertson. “For decades, we have allowed our mining and critical minerals workforce to decline and our domestic supply chains of critical minerals to weaken. PROSPECT is about reversing that trend by challenging universities to rapidly grow the number of graduates ready to build and sustain the American critical minerals supply chains, from mines to materials.”
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Michigan Technological University is a flagship public research university founded in 1885. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.
