Technical & Industrial

The Technical and Industrial concentration at Coastal Georgia focuses upon areas that students are most familiar with from their AAT degrees from technical colleges. The emphasis is on lean manufacturing, project management, and supply chain and materials management.

Businesses focus on how they manage their supply chain. Supply chain management can be defined as the management of relationships with all stakeholders to deliver superior customer value at less cost to the supply chain as a whole. To do this effectively, logistics is required to coordinate the complex operations involving people, facilities, and supplies.

Why study Technical & Industrial at Coastal Georgia?

The College of Coastal Georgia acknowledges those completing the program will be prepared to competently and efficiently engage their chosen vocational field as not only highly-trained technicians, but also as effective mid-level general and operations managers.

What will I learn?

Students studying the Technical and Industrial concentration at Coastal Georgia will learn how to launch, plan, complete, monitor, control, and close a technical project, develop project plans for scope, cost, schedule, materials, and more. They will also learn how to apply methods to improve process quality and maximize resource usage, reduce cost, and solve problems in a technical environment.

What can I do when I graduate?

Aspiring managers in these fields need your technical expertise, but they also need the qualifications businesses look for in a manager. In this technical and industrial concentration degree program, you’ll gain the expertise required to manage the technical aspects of business – including careers in business communications, business systems analysis, financial management, human resource management, project management, and various other fields.

  • Dr. Ray Stephens

    Ray Stephens

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    Dr. Stephens is the Program Director for the Workforce Management and Leadership program. He has over 19 years of administrative and teaching experience in the higher education and K-12 environments. He has developed and taught courses at Georgia Southern University within the doctoral education program, and has taught business courses with Liberty University, Indiana Wesleyan University, Baker College, and Darton College. While at Altamaha Technical College, (now Coastal Pines Technical College), he was the department head of the Marketing and Management programs. He has formed and facilitated over 15 business courses for online delivery methods.

    Educationally, he possesses a Master’s degree in Business Administration, a Master’s degree in Education, coupled with a Doctorate in Education Administration. He is a graduate of the Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute, has a certificate in Online Learning Administration, Online Learning and Teaching Management, and is a Certified Customer Service Trainer and Advancement Officer.

    He brings in practical business work experience in wholesale, retail and in banking. He is a previous owner of a small business that employed 27 employees with four locations. He is a member of various professional organizations including the North American Council for Online Learning, the Georgia Association of Career and Technical Education, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and the American Association of Community Colleges. He is a former president of the Georgia Southern University Alumni Association. In his hometown of Jesup, GA, he is past president of the Jesup Rotary Club and the Jaycees, and served on the Board of Directors for the Wayne County Chamber of Commerce.

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