{"id":526,"date":"2016-06-01T08:46:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T08:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=526"},"modified":"2016-06-01T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:44:13","slug":"longview-company-donates-engine-to-tstc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Longview Company Donates Engine to TSTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(MARSHALL) \u2013 The Diesel Equipment Technology program at Texas State Technical College recently received a Waukesha 6-cylinder natural gas engine valued at $12,500.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J-W Power Co. in Longview donated the engine along with its parts book and instruction manual. The company has made donations to the program in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think it would make a great engine for students to learn on,\u201d said Plant Manager David Ramaly. Ramaly is also a member of the program\u2019s advisory committee and the statewide Diesel Equipment Technology Advisory Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The industrial engine is used in the field as a generator operated off natural compressed gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs of right now we do not have the stand for the engine built but the engine is on a temporary pallet,\u201d said Wayne Dillon, an instructor and division director for the Transportation and Service Cluster at TSTC in Marshall. \u201cWe will need to pipe natural gas to the area the engine will be housed and that will not be available until sometime midterm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The donation effort started in October 2015 during a program advisory committee meeting when program staff talked to company representatives. The company sells, leases and services standard and custom natural gas compression equipment and has the largest privately-owned compression fleet in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is always good when industry can give back to those who educate the workforce,\u201d said Ramaly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TSTC in Marshall offers the Associate of Applied Science in Diesel Equipment Technology Off-Highway Specialization and a Certificate in Diesel Equipment Technology Off Highway Equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on how to make a cash or equipment donation to TSTC, contact The TSTC Foundation at 254-867-3900.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration continues for Fall Semester at TSTC. For more information log on to tstc.edu.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_0055-resized-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-527\" src=\"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_0055-resized-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0055 resized 4\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_0055-resized-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_0055-resized-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_0055-resized-4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_0055-resized-4-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC_0055-resized-4.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MARSHALL) \u2013 The Diesel Equipment Technology program at Texas State Technical College recently received a Waukesha 6-cylinder natural gas engine valued at $12,500. J-W Power Co. in Longview donated the engine along with its parts book and instruction manual. The company has made donations to the program in the past. \u201cI think it would make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marshall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}