The Snow Devil 1012 plow team earned third place and the Golden Smile Sportsmanship Award last weekend at the Fifth Annual Institute of Navigation (ION) Autonomous Snowplow Competition. The event is part of the St. Paul Winter Carnival and took place in Rice Park. The team, lead by faculty advisors E.J. Daigle and John McShannock, […]
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Around 100 students and staff filled the Holden Center on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, Jan. 15, to hear former Minneapolis Mayor and Executive Director of Generation Next R.T. Rybak talk about King’s vision and the importance of equality. Rybak was the 150th person to speak about diversity and inclusion at one of the […]
Architecture student Brenda Piliego-Geniz, of Arden Hills, recently received a $15,000 scholarship from The Minneapolis Rotary Club to assist her studies at Dunwoody. Piliego-Geniz is a participant in the College’s Youth Career Awareness Program (YCAP). YCAP enhances the career opportunities of under-represented youth, by empowering them to graduate from high school and obtain a degree […]
Engineering Drafting & Design students in the Product Design class recently visited Modern Metals Foundry Inc. in Bloomington, Minn. The visit is part of a golf putter design project the students are working on. Before the students visited the foundry, Dan Taylor, pattern maker and partial owner of Modern Metals, spent a day in the […]
The National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF) recently informed Dunwoody’s Automotive Service Technology program (AUTO) that it continues to meet the requirements for NATEF Master Automobile Service Technology Accreditation–the highest level of achievement recognized by NATEF. This follows a yearlong extensive review process, which included a self-review by the AUTO Program Advisory Committee in May […]
A team of Dunwoody College of Technology Design & Graphics Technology students won first place in both categories of the Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC) Annual Student Packaging Design Competition “Design to an Opportunity.” The 2014 competition was a three-part structural and graphic design project and 27 colleges nationwide participated. The Dunwoody team–Stephanie […]
Donaldson Company, Inc.’s generous $25,000 grant to Dunwoody College of Technology’s Youth Career Awareness Program (YCAP) will aid the College in redesigning the program to increase the number of diverse students earning an associate’s degree at Dunwoody in pursuit of a technical career. The YCAP program makes technical education both appealing and affordable for a […]
Congratulations to the following students who have been named to Dunwoody College of Technology’s 2014 spring semester dean’s list. The students listed received this honor by upholding a 3.5 grade point average or higher. Amjed Ali Nicholas Amor Nathan Anders Benjamin Anderson Charles Anderson Dane Anderson John Anderson Patrick Anderson Peter Anderson Erik Andreska Nicholas Arneson […]