{"id":30,"date":"2021-11-09T22:07:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:05:27","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">Mississippi State University <\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">Industrial Training and Assessment Center (MSU-ITAC) <\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#5d1725\"> About Us: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">MSU-ITAC provides\u00a0<strong>free energy, productivity, and waste assessments<\/strong>\u00a0to small-and-medium sized industrial facilities and commercial buildings through funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/cmei\/office-critical-minerals-and-energy-innovation\">Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\">The ITAC program sponsors 37 university centers across the U.S. Since the ITAC program&#8217;s creation in 1976, assessments have been conducted at over 20,000 manufacturing facilities. In addition to energy and waste assessments, cybersecurity, smart manufacturing, and prognostics and health management (PHM) activities are now a part of the MSU-ITAC assessment scope. Mississippi State University hosted its first ITAC center from 1994-2011 and is currently contracted to serve as an ITAC, in corroboration with Jackson State University (JSU) and Northeast Mississippi Community College (NEMCC), for the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Map2023.v3-1024x771.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Map2023.v3-1024x771.png 1024w, https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Map2023.v3-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Map2023.v3-768x579.png 768w, https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Map2023.v3.png 1480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi State University Industrial Training and Assessment Center (MSU-ITAC) About Us: MSU-ITAC provides\u00a0free energy, productivity, and waste assessments\u00a0to small-and-medium sized industrial facilities and commercial buildings through funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation. The ITAC program sponsors 37 university centers across the U.S. Since the ITAC program&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iac.msstate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}