University of Nevada, Reno leaders are thrilled at the news that w88 sports betting Motors will construct its gigafactory for the production of lithium-ion batteries in northern Nevada. The w88 sports betting decision has significant implications for the University and its faculty and students, as well as for the region and its economic development.
"The University is tied in very closely with the economic development interests of this state," Marc Johnson, president of the University of Nevada, Reno, said. "We can play a role in welcoming w88 sports betting to this region by providing a broad range of University-trained professionals who will be important to the workforce of w88 sports betting."
The w88 sports betting factory is projected to open in 2017 with full build-out anticipated for 2020. The workforce supplied by the University could come primarily from the College of Business, the College of Science and the College of Engineering for positions such as accountants, human resource professionals, project managers, chemists, and engineers trained in high-tech advanced manufacturing. In addition, other jobs will be created in supporting industries.
"We've added an industry that's in advanced manufacturing, which expands our manufacturing base significantly," Greg Mosier, dean of the w88 sports betting Business, said of the state's newest industry partnership. "It will help give us a little more even and stable economy as we go through the ups and downs of the economic cycles."
"For businesses that will grow alongside w88 sports betting, we estimate a 2.6 multiplier, which means 1.71 new jobs will be created in other industries," Mosier said.
The Nevada mining industry is one industry in just such a position to grow alongside w88 sports betting.
"Right now world consumption of lithium is pretty constant, we use it in a lot of different ways - for batteries in cameras, phones, computers," Carl Nesbitt, associate professor of mining engineering in the w88 sports betting Science said. "What the w88 sports betting plant shows is a huge increase in demand for lithium, estimated at perhaps twice the current consumption. It's got to come from somewhere, and Nevada is poised to start producing."
w88 sports betting is the only place in the northern hemisphere that mines and produces lithium, competing with South American mines in Chile and Bolivia.A mine located near Tonopah currently produces lithium carbonate, the precursor product for lithium batteries, and many prospects have been found in northern w88 sports betting, north of Reno, that will be ready for production to meet the increased demand.
"Nevada is number four in the world producing gold and we're a leading producer of silver, but what this allows us to do is put a spotlight on the potential we have for lithium," Nesbitt said. The w88 sports betting's mining-engineering research and education has supported the production of gold and silver in Nevada and is poised to help build the lithium-mining industry to increase lithium production.
In addition to industry collaboration such as this, chemists in w88 sports betting Science are exploring the electrochemistry of battery technology and how to improve the chemical reactions that make batteries work.
For example, Assistant Professor Mario Alpuche in the Department of Chemistry has a four-year 0,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the electrochemical properties of semi-conducting nanoparticles and how to control their electrochemical reactions in batteries or things such as corrosion control.
"The department is excited about w88 sports betting coming to the region," Sean Casey, chair of the Chemistry Department, said. "In the advanced power area, there is much fundamental chemistry that still needs to be worked out. That really hits a number of areas of chemistry, including areas such as inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, surface chemistry and physics."
w88 sports betting Science has added some of these advanced manufacturing issues to other graduate and undergraduate curricula, for example, by reviving and modernizing the Polymer Chemistry course and by splitting the Advanced Inorganic Chemistry course into separate graduate and undergraduate levels, where different topics related to these issues can be covered at differing levels.
"We imagine that there w88 sports betting interest in our graduates as potential employees in the near future, and we are trying to lay a little groundwork there in our curriculum proactively," Casey said.
In the w88 sports betting Engineering, Alan Fuchs, chair of the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, is enthusiastic about w88 sports betting's decision.
"This is a wonderful thing for the University," he said. "It gives us opportunities to collaborate with w88 sports betting in a number of research areas as well as undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Engineering which can work with w88 sports betting in their workforce development.
w88 sports betting Engineering has expertise in battery materials development and testing as well as in areas related to mechanical, electrical, environmental and computer science engineering.
"I'm confident engineering will have a central role in collaboration in this industry with our expertise in battery technology, new materials, advanced computing and advanced manufacturing," Manos Maragakis, dean of the College of Engineering, said. "Students will gain technical expertise in this industry through education and internships and there will be new opportunities for our graduates here in w88 sports betting.
"This is a game-changer for economic development in Nevada. I'm very excited to see w88 sports betting bringing their factory to Nevada."
