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(HARLINGEN, Texas) – As manufacturers rely on automation and advanced technologies, students in Texas State Technical College’s Advanced Manufacturing Industrial Maintenance and Automation and Robotics programs are developing the technical skills needed to keep modern production systems running. Advanced Manufacturing programs focus on robotics, coding and smart automation, preparing students to work with technologies used...

(WACO, Texas) – Kiewit Corp. supported Texas State Technical College’s Diesel Equipment program by donating 14 tool kits to The TSTC Foundation. The kits benefitted students who began the program this semester. “We’ve found it’s more valuable to donate to the programs than to donate to a fund,” said Marcus Bray, an equipment director for...

Blueprints and Breakthroughs: How Jeffrey Cutts Found His Focus at TSTC The moment Jeffrey Cutts walked into the machine shop, the scent of shaved metal and cutting oil hit him. To most, a working lab is a chaotic symphony of whirring gears and flying debris. To Jeffrey, it was the first place that truly calmed...

  From Four-Year Degree to Two-Year Career: One Grad’s Detour to a Career She Loves   Recent Texas State Technical College graduate Payden Parsons doesn’t dread work anymore.  “It’s exciting to see the work I do in the office actually put into the field,” she smiled. “In my previous positions, I dreaded going to work...

(WACO, Texas) – For Samantha Higham, of League City, her days consist of metals and her weekends are for mammoths. Higham is a fourth-semester student working toward an associate degree in Texas State Technical College’s Precision Machining program at the Waco campus. Higham had some experience with machining when she was a student at Clear...

(RED OAK, Texas) – Vincent Dubose, of Glenn Heights, graduated from Texas State Technical College’s Electrical Power and Controls program in 2025. The U.S. Navy veteran returned to the North Texas campus to be part of the MEI (Mechanical, Electrical and Information Technology) Data Center Pathway program’s third cohort. “I wanted to do something more...