San Jac getting new energy, tech center

​​​​PASADENA – San Jacinto College recently broke ground on its $60 million Center for Petrochemical, Energy, and Technology.

Set to open in 2019 on the college’s Central Campus at 8060 Spencer Hwy., the planned 145,000-sf center at Fairmont Pkwy. and Cunningham Dr. is part of a $425 million bond passed in late 2015. It will house the school’s associate degree and certificate programs for electrical technology, non-destructive testing, process technology, and instrumentation and analyzer technology.

School officials estimate that the planned center will lead to a 25 percent increase in admission to the programs it will house. Approximately 3,600 students now study those programs at San Jacinto.