The NDSCS Applied Science and Technologies Department of NDSCS is located in the Skills and Technology Training Center (STTC) in Fargo, ND. It has as its mission the education and training of students and incumbent workers to meet the growing need for highly skilled employees in the emerging technology areas of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Bio-fuels Technology, Microelectronics Technology and Micromanufacturing Technology. It meets this workforce training need of the future by offering for-credit degree programs (Associate in Applied Science degree, A.A.S.), certificates and diplomas in the above-mentioned areas.
Training and instructional delivery occurs through the Applied Science and Advanced Manufacturing Training Laboratory located in the STTC. It is through this facility that intensive hands-on skill development takes place in what many consider a state of the art, multidisciplinary, advanced manufacturing training laboratory.
