The power industry is staring down a workforce crisis. An aging labor force is heading for the exits, new recruits aren’t arriving fast enough to replace them, and a historic wave of energy infrastructure investment is only widening the gap. Against that backdrop, a partnership between Stony Brook University and Haugland Group—an infrastructure services company specializing in energy and civil construction—offers a compelling blueprint for how academia, industry, and government can work together to build a durable talent pipeline.

In a recent episode of The POWER Podcast, Derek O’Connor, Workforce Development Manager in the Office for Research and Innovation at Stony Brook University, and Rosalie Drago, Vice President for External Affairs and Strategic Engagement with the Haugland Group, discussed the suite of workforce programs they’ve developed, the model that makes them work, and why the industry needs to invest in workers long before they’re ready to step onto a job site.

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