Engineered for success – Carroll College of Helena, Montana

With growth and self-promotion in mind, Carroll College http://www.carroll.edu/ will run with the big dogs this spring when it hosts a regional engineering conference in Helena, drawing 300 students from major universities across the Pacific Northwest.

Planned for the first week in April, the conference marks the progress Carroll’s civil engineering program has made since it turned out its first class of engineering graduates nine years ago.

That class was comprised of just three students, and it would take another year before ABET, or the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, would fully recognize Carroll’s program in 2001.

But less than a decade later, 65 students are now enrolled in the program while two, and possibly three new tracks within civil engineering could be created as Carroll celebrates its centennial this year.

By MARTIN J. KIDSTON Independent Record

Full Story: http://helenair.com/articles/2009/02/23/top/top/50lo_090223_engineer.txt