Greetings from the Instrumentation & Control program at Bismarck State College! Did you know that within ten years, sixty to eighty percent of the workforce in our major industries and institutions will be retiring? And there will be large shortages of skilled and trained workers to fill their places. That means now is a great time to enroll in our new program which was designed with the help of these very industries that will have jobs needing to be filled.
To learn more about Bismarck State College's Instrumentation & Control program, click here.
Some of the skills and industries include:
- Power Plants
- Process Plants
- Chemical production
- Water treatment facilities
- Appliance and medical equipment manufacturing
- Aerospace
- Biomedical
- Food processing
- Petroleum refining
- And others
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