Youngstown State University is adding another on-campus resource for students, as well as k-12 students across the Valley and displaced workers.  

The university held a ribbon-cutting Monday for the new Excellence Training Center at 2 p.m.

The new 54,000-square-foot facility is located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and West Commerce Street.

The Training Center is a partnership between YSU, Eastern Gateway Community College, and Youngstown City schools, among others. It will be a hub to provide focused education using the technology of the future.

The facility will provide classes to not only YSU students, but anyone who is interested with a focus on grade and high school students to start training early and overcome barriers.

"This is a future area that is going to thrive," YSU President Jim Tressel said, "The only thing that will stop us will be a lack of workforce. We are here to be a part of that solution."

YSU's Excellence Training Center was a $12 million investment and will feature space for manufacturing research and design, automotive and robotics training, CC machining classes, metrology and CT scanning, industrial maintenance training and a "Foundry of the Future" that includes mold-making technology.

University representatives say the center also includes office suites that will be rented to industry partners.

Initial partnerships for job training include Ultium Cells and Mitsubishi which will offer hundreds of technician jobs.