Second-year Automated Systems & Robotics students were recently tasked with a simple assignment: to design an industrial robot program for any application of their choosing. According to Instructor Joey White, the only requirement was that “they needed to demonstrate the use of position registers, the offset motion option along with math instructions to make sequential […]
Team Donates 6,000 + Canned Goods to Second Harvest Heartland Dunwoody’s Construction Sciences & Building Technology Department teamed up with Mortenson Construction for the 2015 Minneapolis CANstruction fundraiser—an annual event where participating teams build colossal structres made entirely out of cans of food. The CANstruction team earned the “Best Meal” Award at the event, which […]
Dunwoody College’s partnership with the Makers Coalition will again be featured on the PBS documentary series Dropping Back In. The five-episode series illustrates the enormous personal and societal costs to students who drop out of high school, and how successful training-based programs—such as those offered by Dunwoody—can help counter those losses. Dunwoody’s Dean of Workforce […]
Earlier this spring, ABRA Auto Body partnered with the Collision Repair Education Foundation (CREF) and awarded 10 collision repair students with tool grants. With the help of Automotive Collision Repair & Refinishing Principal Instructor Bruce Graffunder, Dunwoody student Anthony Pung learned he was one of those students during a class lecture: The grant—open to high […]
Seven students and their Snow Devil 1012 plow will compete in the Fifth Annual Institute of Navigation (ION) Autonomous Snowplow Competition in Rice Park this weekend. The competition runs Jan. 24-25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Rice Park, Downtown St. Paul, Minn. According to the ION Autonomous Snowplow Competition website: “The purpose of this […]
Cool Stuff at Dunwoody visits the Robotics lab for a demonstration of a Fanuc robot playing the piano.
Cool Stuff at Dunwoody visits the Robotics lab where Automated Systems and Robotics students Matthew Peterzen and Cory Evans demonstrate how Dunwoody’s Fanuc M410i robot can be used to stack boxes on a pallet. The routine you see was programmed by Peterzen, Daniel Gripne, and Bryan O’Neil.
Cool Stuff at Dunwoody tags along with students from the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems Servicing and Heating/Air Conditioning Systems Design programs for a visit to Uponor, a company that makes products for radiant heating and cooling systems. In the video, Steve Swanson demonstrates how to add a coupling to the PEX-A tubing that […]