Women in Technical Careers is a scholarship program designed to help women students succeed in a technical degree program at Dunwoody College of Technology and launch into a great career. Most careers requiring a technical degree are non-traditional for women (defined by federal law as employing fewer than 25 percent women nationwide). Those same careers […]
Category: Uncategorized
Categories
Engineered for the Drive
Students put their engineering skills to the test in off-road vehicle challenge Students at Dunwoody College of Technology, along with several faculty members, traveled to the California desert to put their engineering, design, and fabrication skills to the test in the 2024 Baja SAE Challenge. The competition challenges engineering students to design and build an […]
A Fall Semester 2022 course called Commercial Project Management (also known as the Capstone) is largely a self-guided course for the first half of the semester. It is also a class competition between several teams formed from all sections of the course. Fall 2022 had three sections of the course – one daytime, and two […]
Categories
Survey students go to Washington
In late March 2023, six Dunwoody students and an adjunct instructor travelled to Washington, D.C. for the 2023 National Student Surveying Competition, hosted by the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS). The competition included teams from 23 other colleges from the United States and Puerto Rico. FOR TWO DAYS, students competed in field activities relating […]
Categories
Faculty News
Larrabee Presented with Distinguished Teacher Award Longtime Construction Management faculty Rick Larrabee was awarded a 2023 Distinguished Teacher Award at the all-staff meeting and End of School Year Celebration on May 23. This award is given to a faculty member who has committed a significant portion of their career to the art of teaching and […]
Categories
CSBT PAC NEWS
PAC-sponsored Fall Meet & Greet To kick off the new school year, the Program Advisory Committee (PAC) invited alumni and current CMGT/PMGT students to attend on September 14, 2022, the first meeting of the PAC Board for the Academic Year 2022 –23. This early evening event was followed by a Meet & Greet gathering that […]
The Dunwoody Construction Management Student Association (DCMSA) focused this year on increasing engagement between students and employers through presentations on campus. Companies that presented are currently employing our students and/or actively engaged with the Program Advisory Committee (PAC). Students learned about companies that are actively hiring Dunwoody graduates and about types of construction management activities, […]
FALL SEMESTER saw the surprising increase in the number of students enrolled in the Materials & Methods 2 course that culminates in a major build project. Fall 2022 semester had enough students to create three sections of the course, each focusing their build project toward donating the result to a non-profit organization. There were two […]