迪克西·里德

2021年4月9日

In a few years, motorists traveling along 萨克拉门托’s Ramona Avenue will see cutting-edge autonomous and electric vehicles silently traversing hills and curves on a test track outside the 加州移动中心（CMC）。

The large-scale track will be the public showpiece at The Hub: 萨克拉门托 State 研究 Park, where CMC’s permanent ramp-up factory will sit on 25 acres owned by the University. 该地块位于雷蒙纳大道3100号，位于校园以南约半英里处，预计将在五到七年内开发完成。

2005年，Sac州立大学以230万美元的折扣价从州政府手中买下了这片土地，这里曾经是加州青少年管理局（California Youth Authority）的一所惩教设施所在地。 该大学打算在那里建造学生和教师住房，但2008-09年的经济衰退使这些计划被搁置。 该大学在2018年开放的5号停车场建设期间，将这片土地用作学生的偏远停车场。

The Ramona Avenue property is within the 萨克拉门托 Center for Innovation, the city’s set-aside for innovative business and clean technology industries. The location is ideal for eventual development of CMC’s permanent ramp-up factory, promising ready access to technology innovators as well as to 囊状态 students and faculty, said Jonathan Bowman, the University’s vice president for 政府 and chief financial officer, as well as CMC’s secretary/treasurer.

“囊状态 is involved with the CMC because of the great partnership opportunities,” Bowman said. “Student interns will get hands-on experience with developing technologies, and CMC clients will benefit from those same students in the commercialization of their products. 

“This could lead to the creation of 囊状态 programs specifically geared toward these emerging technologies, giving our students valuable experiences that are difficult to obtain elsewhere,” Bowman added.

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In the meantime, CMC is setting up in leased quarters at Depot Park in south 萨克拉门托, where activity continues to grow following the center’s official launch in March.

博彩平台是CMC的创始成员之一，CMC是一个非营利性的公私企业加速中心，致力于成为全球领先的创新和商业化中心，并在电动交通领域树立榜样。

University 罗伯特·s·尼尔森总统 acknowledges CMC’s technological and business importance, while emphasizing the synergy it has with 囊状态, as well as the impact it can have on students.

“CMC is targeted at creating sustainable transportation, and sustainability is what 囊状态 has been about for a long, long time,” said Nelsen, a member of the CMC board, which includes representatives from SMUD, the Greater 萨克拉门托 Economic Council (GSEC), EnerTech Capital, Toyota 研究 Institute, UC Davis, and Microsoft, among other thought leaders in clean technology innovation. “This is exciting from an entrepreneurial standpoint, because it brings start-ups – new companies – to life here.

“And our students will have the chance to work in actual manufacturing, in a plant where they will create prototypes of new technology.”

囊状态 is positioned to play an important role, said Yvonne Harris, associate vice president for the University’s Offices of 研究, Innovation, and Economic Development (ORIED).

“(W)hen an innovation hub like CMC is connected to a university, it is in a position to use the university’s resources, talents, and mechanisms to speed that along,” Harris said. “This has been done in other industry sectors, but 萨克拉门托 State is the first in respect to mobility, clean energy, and emerging technologies.”

CMC’s ramp-up factory occupies a vast warehouse at the former U.S. Army Depot. 它配备了大型设备，从13英尺的焊接台和电动等离子切割机，到Dynamic 1340G金属车床和嵌入混凝土地板的车辆升降机。

囊状态 student-interns have been on site for several weeks, validating the machinery and running tests to help ensure readiness when CMC’s first client arrives in mid-May.

“It’s exciting to see how the technology will evolve and to watch this warehouse be brought up from nothing to what it will be,” said Sarah Moseley ’20 (Mechanical Engineering), now a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering. 她的第一个客户项目是为位于萨克拉门托的非营利组织CleanStart改造一辆使用清洁技术的拖车。

The first assignment for Derek Heinemann, a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate, is to design an adaptor for the facility’s entrance ramp that will allow oversize vehicles to enter.

目前，Sac州立大学有五名学生实习生致力于在该网站工作。 Sierra学院和American River学院各有一个。

The students are mentored by Mike Bell, professor of Mechanical Engineering at 囊状态 and the ramp-up factory’s chief engineer. He also is executive director of 萨克拉门托 State’s newly created Office of Clean Energy and Mobility Technologies (OCEMT), which is within ORIED.

OCEMT连接囊状态和CMC。

“The University is where the human capital is in place,” Harris said. “给n the emerging clean-energy and mobile technologies that CMC is focused on, we have the College of Engineering and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics that will all work together based on specific projects where CMC clients need that level of expertise.”

CMC’s clients will pay a fee for business consultation and may rent use of the factory’s growing collection of equipment. 当客户在测试和实现可行的商业化方面需要帮助时，贝尔可以提供学生实习生和Sac州立大学的教师与他们一起工作。

Bowman, the 囊状态 administrator, offers a simple outline of the center’s purpose and methods:

“Say that someone wants to build a new electric scooter and has an idea for the battery,” Bowman said. “Instead of this new company buying manufacturing equipment and hiring business people to help them strategize, they come to CMC.

“They will get early-stage advice on how to build their business and are walked through all the processes that can help them have that battery and scooter commercially viable and ready for production.”

With that anticipated success, CMC and other organizations such as GSEC look for the newly viable companies to set up their manufacturing operations in 萨克拉门托, Bowman said, “And we hope that our student-interns would get jobs with them.”

 “CMC is targeted at creating sustainable transportation, and sustainability is what 囊状态 has been about for a long, long time. 从企业家的角度来看，这是令人兴奋的，因为它带来了初创企业……  为这里的生活干杯。” - 罗伯特·s·尼尔森总统