October 8, 2003 Civil Engineering Technology Hosts Open House Ing
Des Moines Area Community College, Boone Campus Volume 3, Issue 3 October 8, 2003 Civil Engineering Technology hosts open house ing. Laura Griffin Students in the program take courses Banner Staff in surveying, global positioning systems, construction materials and design, high- The Civil Engineering Technology way design, computer aided drafting, Materials Lab held an open house on mathematics and human relations. Sept. 30. Students have a paid internship in their Faculty and staff were greeted by Renee second year of the program to give them White, CET instructor, who showed them experience. A CET graduate gets paid around the lab. between $14 to $18 per hour. Visitors to the CET lab are met at the Civil engineers survey, inspect and front door by Kelli Bennett at the recep- design highways and bridges. They also tion desk. Also in the building is a com- test soil and structural materials. puter lab, and two regular classrooms, one The Civil Engineering Technology pro- with dual monitors, a conference room, gram is part of the Accelerated Career a materials laboratory area, two spacious Education program. offices and rest rooms. Steve Rittger teaches the math and Vending machines inside the entrance automated design courses. Rittger teaches provide snacks for students and faculty in the classroom with the dual monitors. who are there during the day. “The programs we use require a lot of Tracey Kingsley, a freshman in the pro- screen space for multiple tools and views,” gram, said, “I am excited because when Rittger said, about why dual monitors are I graduate from the Civil Engineering used.
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