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(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Texas State Technical College’s Professional Driving Academy is shifting into high gear with a $486,023 grant from the Southwest Border Regional Commission (SBRC) that will expand Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) training at the Harlingen campus. “This initiative stands out to the commission as it addresses the critical shortage of certified commercial drivers...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Two Cessna 172 aircraft will give Texas State Technical College’s aviation maintenance students at the Harlingen campus new opportunities to train on actual aircraft through a partnership between TSTC and Harlingen-based Gulf Aviation. The aircraft were donated by TSTC’s Aircraft Pilot Training program in Waco and flown to Harlingen by program instructors...

(ROSENBERG, Texas) – Before the first Electrical Construction students step into the lab this fall at Texas State Technical College’s Fort Bend County campus, months of planning have gone into building a program designed to prepare students for careers in the electrical field. Shawn McNeil, the program’s team lead, said the faculty is excited because...

Texas State Technical College’s expanding partnership with Peterbilt Motor Co. has granted the school’s Diesel Equipment program access to its extensive library of interactive course modules known as Peterbilt Academy.  “We’ve gone from just having Waco as a partner to all of the TSTC Diesel Equipment locations as partners, and that’s just happened in the...

Flying High TSTC Alumni Pay It Forward as Aviation Instructors They once explored the facility as students. Now, they lead it. A dedicated group of instructors knows every nook and cranny of Texas State Technical College’s aviation maintenance hangar in Abilene. They have watched it fill with equipment, rearranged workspaces and integrated new technology over...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – For Humberto Martinez, dedication is in every mile he travels between Brownsville and Harlingen. For a majority of Martinez’s time at Texas State Technical College, his alarm is set for 5 a.m. to begin his day on a bus ride to Harlingen. He returned home to Brownsville via bus as well. Martinez...