Starting in August 2014 Surveying & Civil Engineering Technology will be offered as a daytime program at Dunwoody College.
The program has been offered at Dunwoody since the early 1920s, but starting in 2001 classes only became available in the evenings.
Surveying & Civil Engineering Technology Principal Instructor Kelly Ness says the switch to days will result in larger class sizes. He says evening programs tend to attract smaller classes generally made up of non-typical students who are changing careers.
“We would like to have full classes of graduates,” Ness said. “We feel the switch to daytime classes is necessary to attract the number of students that the industry will need in the years to come.”
The switch to daytime classes isn’t the only change for the program.
“We are in the process of introducing an updated curriculum to keep up with an industry that is constantly in flux,” Ness said. “There is new equipment on the doorstep–imaging, laser scanning and unmanned vehicles–that will revolutionize the industry. We need to be ready to integrate these technologies into the curriculum when they become adopted by the industry.”
Ness says many of Minnesota’s licensed surveyors have graduated from Dunwoody. He’s confident the recent changes to Dunwoody’s program will ensure employers continue to have plenty of quality civil engineering technicians available for hire after graduation.
For more information about Surveying & Civil Engineering Technology, go to http://dunwoody.edu/construction/surveying-civil-engineering-technology/