Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU or Southern Tech) is "Georgia's Technology University", located just northwest of Atlanta in Marietta, Georgia, USA. It is a part of the University System of Georgia. Image File history File links Southern Polytechnic State University logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Southern Polytechnic State University logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... Historic Downtown Marietta Marietta is a city located in central Cobb County, Georgia GR6, and is its county seat. ... The University System of Georgia (USG) is the organizational body that includes all public institutions of higher learning in Georgia. ...

History

The school began in 1948 in barracks on the campus of the Naval Air Station Atlanta (now DeKalb Peachtree Airport) in Chamblee, northeast of Atlanta. At that time, all colleges in Georgia were considered extensions of the state's four research universities, and the Southern Technical Institute (STI) belonged to the Georgia Institute of Technology. STI was begun as an engineering technology school, to help military personnel returning from World War II gain a hands-on experience in technical fields. Georgia Tech was not equipped to do this, as its engineering-only curriculum was focused more on theory. Students in Rome, Italy. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... A barracks housing conscripts of Norrbottens regemente in Boden, Sweden. ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... Naval Air Station Atlanta (NAS Atlanta) is the U.S. Navy air base in metro Atlanta. ... DeKalb-Peachtree Airport (IATA: PDK, ICAO: KPDK) is a municipal general aviation airport located in Chamblee, Georgia, just northeast of Atlanta. ... Chamblee is a city located in DeKalb County, Georgia. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... The word research derives from the French recherche, from rechercher, to search closely where chercher means to search (see French language); its literal meaning is to investigate thoroughly. Research is a human activity based on intellectual investigation and aimed at discovering, interpreting, and revising human knowledge on different aspects of... The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly known as Georgia Tech, is a public, coeducational university, part of the University System of Georgia, and located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia and Metz, France. ... Engineering technology (ET) is a cross between engineering (which is more research-based), and technology (which is applications-based). ... Human Resources has at least two meanings depending on context. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Engineering is the design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. ... In education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their contents offered by an institution such as a school or university. ... The word theory has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion. ...

Around 1958, the school moved to Marietta, to land donated by Dobbins Air Force Base. In 1981, the school was split from Georgia Tech, around the same time most of the others were separated from University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Medical College of Georgia. The school was renamed Southern College of Technology (SCT), and later Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) in 1996 and since then it has been sucking the life out of the average college students in America. Southern Poly has developed and new headfront for the new millenia where...um they planned to create the most miserable atmosphere in a campus known to man kind. Thank you to the board of education of the state of Georgia for shafting us once again. Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dobbins Air Reserve Base is a U.S. Air Force Reserve base located in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb about 20 miles or 30 kilometers northwest of Atlanta. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Georgia (UGA) is the largest institution of higher learning in the state of Georgia. ... Georgia State University (GSU) is an urban research university in the heart of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves over 28,000[1] students, and is one of the University System of Georgias four research universities. ... In 1828 the Medical Academy of Georgia was chartered by the state of Georgia with plans to offer a single course of lectures leading to a bachelors degree. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Activities

Student organizations, such as fraternities and clubs, are governmed by the SPSU Student Government Association SGA. SGA is composed of elected undergraduate students. The SGA is designed closely to the U.S. government, where the Vice President chairs the legislative body and the President has veto power. The SGA is composed of three main branches: Executive (President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer, Chief Judge, and committee chairs), Legislative (Council members, VP, S/T, Parliamentarian, Sergeant-at-Arms), and Judicial (Chief Judge, Associate Judges, Investigators). The chief officer is the President, however the Vice President Shyam Nana and the Chief Judge Kevin Moss are the two chairs who both control the two main branches of the SGA (the executive branch is a mixture of judicial and legislative).

Students of the university operate WGHR, a noncommercial college radio station. It has been operating since 1969, later serving much of Cobb County in the northwest metro Atlanta area on FM and now via webcast. The station is student- and listener-supported, with diverse and eclectic programming from a wide variety of genres. WGHR is a noncommercial radio station operated by the students of Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia, USA. The station is student- and listener-supported, with diverse programming from a wide variety of genres. ... Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. ... A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... Cobb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. ... Hotlanta redirects here. ... The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... The word webcast is derived from web and broadcast. Its use has varied since the early-mid 1990s as the nature of the medium came into public use. ... Eclecticism is an approach to thought that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions or conclusions, but instead draws upon multiple theories to gain complementary insights into phenomena, or applies only certain theories in particular cases. ... Look up genre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Students also operate The STING, an acronym meaning Southern Technical Institute News Gazette. The student newspaper has been publishing since the school was founded. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Backronym and Apronym (Discuss) Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations, such as NATO, laser, and ABC, written as the initial letter or letters of words, and pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form. ... A student newspaper is a newspaper run by students of a university, high school, or middle school. ...

For more than a decade, an SPSU student team has competed in the International Aerial Robotics Competition sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). Over the years the SPSU teams have won various awards for their fully autonomous aerial robots. Also, the Electrical, Computer and Telecommications Technology department sponsors a student-run Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) team that competes in an annual AUVSI underwater vehicle competition in San Diego, California. The International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) began in 1991 on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology. ... Autonomy is the condition of something that does not depend on anything else. ...

SPSU Wiki

In August 2005, SPSU launched its own wiki on a trial basis with the approval of current university president Dr. Lisa Rossbacher. The SPSU Wiki contains "relevant" information about the school, an event schedule, and information about the varying policies and procedures at SPSU, edited by the students and staff of SPSU. [See External Links]

External links

• SPSU
• Student Government Association
• AIAS
• WGHR
• STING
• SPSU Wiki
• SPSU Aerial Robotics Team
• SPSU AUV Robotics Team