As seen on South Carolina Business Review, by Mike Switzer
While our next guest’s institution has a reputation for churning out military officers and business managers, their focus has changed significantly over the past few years to meet the workforce demands for engineers.
Mike Switzer interviews Ron Welch, dean of engineering at the Citadel in Charleston, SC.

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