{"id":3622,"date":"2018-05-16T14:36:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2018-05-16T14:38:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:38:40","slug":"academic-excellence-award-donald-posterick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/2018\/academic-excellence-award-donald-posterick\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Excellence Award: Donald Posterick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Donald Posterick<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Electronics Engineering Technology<br \/>\nGrand Rapids, Minnesota<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3623\" src=\"https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DonaldPosterick-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DonaldPosterick-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DonaldPosterick-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dunwoody.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DonaldPosterick-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Described by faculty as a student who demonstrates \u201ca focused determination to succeed and an outstanding desire to excel,\u201d Donald Posterick earned not only the Academic Excellence Award in Robotics &amp; Manufacturing, but he also received this year\u2019s Student Leadership Award from the Dunwoody Alumni Association. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cDonald reminds me that the best Dunwoody students not only challenge themselves, but also challenge us as instructors to push harder and farther,\u201d Dean of Robotics &amp; Manufacturing E.J. Daigle said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Posterick\u2019s love for electronics and engineering started back in high school when his natural curiosity prompted him to join the Robotics Team and the Shell Eco Marathon Team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">When nobody on the Robotics Team voiced an interest in tackling the electronics and programming side, Posterick stepped up and took on the challenge. He then went on to develop a speed controller for the Shell Eco Marathon Team\u2019s prototype electronic vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cI began to learn how to program using online resources \u2013 and a lot of trial and error,\u201d Posterick said. \u201cAt first it was hard, but I was determined, and I didn\u2019t let anything slow me down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">That hard work and determination has also helped him succeed here at Dunwoody. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Originally from Grand Rapids, Minn., Posterick discovered Dunwoody College while out talking with companies about sponsoring the Robotics Team. The vice president of the local Chrysler dealership happened to be the former IT director at Dunwoody and encouraged Posterick to check it out and connected him with Daigle. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Posterick followed up on the advice and applied for the College\u2019s Youth Career Awareness Program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cI was impressed by all that Dunwoody had to offer \u2013 from the fully equipped labs, experienced faculty, and interesting extra-curricular activities. I knew that this was the school for me,\u201d Posterick said. \u201cI was luckily accepted into YCAP. The scholarship from YCAP made it possible for me to attend Dunwoody, and after spending the five weeks over the summer at Dunwoody, I wouldn\u2019t have wanted to go anywhere else.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">During his time at Dunwoody, Posterick has enjoyed the project-based approach to education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cHere at Dunwoody the material we cover in our theory classes we immediately apply in our labs to build and reinforce the skills that we will need in the future,\u201d Posterick said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Posterick has excelled beyond the classroom as well. He served as the lead programmer for Dunwoody\u2019s autonomous snow plow teams, resulting in third and second place finishes during the past two years, among 12 of the top engineering universities in the Upper Midwest. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">In addition, Posterick and his teammates went above and beyond assisting other colleges and university teams with repairs to their own snowplows, ensuring they could compete \u2013 and earning the Professor Nattu Sportsmanship Award. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Posterick is graduating from the Electronics Engineering Technology program and is planning to return this fall as a student in the Software Engineering program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">After two years and hundreds of hours of software design for the autonomous snowplows I have realized that my true passion is not just electronics, but bringing together electronics and software,\u201d Posterick said. \u201cMy plan is pursue a bachelor\u2019s degree in Software Engineering from Dunwoody over the next four years and continue studying and developing autonomous navigation software to be used by our snowplows, but also to create a versatile system capable of autonomous flight control and obstacle avoidance in multirotor platforms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Posterick Electronics Engineering Technology Grand Rapids, Minnesota Described by faculty as a student who demonstrates \u201ca focused determination to succeed and an outstanding desire to excel,\u201d Donald Posterick earned not only the Academic Excellence Award in Robotics &amp; Manufacturing, but he also received this year\u2019s Student Leadership Award from the Dunwoody Alumni Association. \u201cDonald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363],"tags":[314,321,371],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-excellence-award","tag-dunwoody-college-of-technology","tag-electronics-engineering-technology","tag-robotics-and-manufacturing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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