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Russ College of Engineering and Technology Stories

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Friendly Skies

ĢƵ University’s Gordon Bush Airport is home to Francis Fuller Training Center, where almost 120 Russ College of Engineering and Technology students are working toward their private and commercial pilot licenses. The College also offers an aviation management degree. Future pilots start in the classroom and can eventually become Certified Flight Instructors themselves, along the way banking more than 1,400 hours in flight before receiving their degrees.

The photo essay that follows illustrates the hours of effort OHIO aviation students put into becoming pilots.

Banner of a Top Hawk Cessna

ĢƵ University aviation program receives aircraft as top flight school

Textron Aviation, manufacturer of Cessna, Beechcraft, and other leading training aircraft, has named ĢƵ University as one of just four 2019 Top Hawk schools,

Chemical engineering senior and Society of Women Engineers President Ashley Weitzel helps an Athens-area Girl Scout assemble a Rube Goldberg machine at the groups’ “Buildings, Brains, and Boxes” design contest

The future (of engineering) is female

ĢƵ University students studying engineering and technology know to expect rigorous coursework and lots of career options. The field’s female students also know to expect a huge gender gap.

Amir Farnoud sits on a bench

Last word with Amir Farnoud

Amir Farnoud is a researcher who thinks big but works with the very small. The very, very small.

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Step up

When the T. Richard and Eleanora K. Robe Leadership Institute (RLI) was established in 1996, the Russ College of Engineering and Technology was in uncharted territory. Higher ed wasn’t yet concerned with engineering students’ leadership and emotional intelligence skills. Things have changed.

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