Liberals pledge to create four-year engineering program at TRU

May 1, 2017 | 11:18 AM

KAMLOOPS — The BC Liberal Party is pledging to fund a four-year engineering program at Thompson Rivers University, if elected on May 9.

As it stands, TRU provides training for the first two years of an engineering degree, but Kamloops-South Thompson Liberal candidate Todd Stone says students must complete their degrees elsewhere.

“This will enable TRU to offer a full-fledged four-year Bachelor of Engineering program in software, hardware and electrical engineering,” said Stone.

“Over the last 30 years, about 500 students have done the first, and in some cases, the second year of engineering at TRU, and have left Kamloops to complete their training. Very few of those 500 students ever come back to Kamloops.”