Announcing the All-New
Automotive Technology Building

Every Detail Carefully Planned for NEIT’s New Automotive Center Read the article from the Providence Journal of April 12, 2005

New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) in Warwick, RI has completed construction on a 53,000 square foot building dedicated solely to the training of automotive technicians. The multi-story structure, which is visible from Route 95, built on a 12 acre parcel of land at a cost of $1.5m for the land, $7.5m for the building and $1.5m for automotive equipment.

This hi-tech automotive facility includes glass skylights, a 24,000 square foot hands-on training laboratory and an attached 29,000 square foot three story classroom building. It includes the latest state-of-the-art automotive training aids and equipment. New England Institute of Technology is the largest technical college in New England with its automotive related training programs accounting for one quarter of the college’s nearly three thousand students.

Seth Kurn, Executive Vice President of NEIT, notes that the need for trained automotive technicians in Rhode Island, New England and nationally, is tremendous. As the United States population ages, it is estimated that ten automotive technicians are retiring for every two new people who enter the automotive profession. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates the need for 30,000 new automotive technicians each year just to fill this retirement void.

There are 818,000 automotive technicians working in the United States and the BLS estimates the need for 80,000 new automotive technicians over the next ten years.