CBA students earn Dow Awards

Two Central Michigan University College of Business Administration students received The Dow Chemical Company Awards of Excellence for exceptional achievements in the use of Systems, Applications, and Programs in Data Processing software (SAP).

The $500 award recognizes the students’ SAP course work performance and their outstanding performance in the study of Management Information Systems (MIS).

Leslie Pionk, an MIS junior, earned her award for her final project in an SAP programming course taught by MIS professor Roger Hayen.

Thomas McGinnis had been working for Dow Corning Corporation where he helped implement SAP before coming to CMU to pursue a master of science in information systems degree.

In 1998, CMU became one of the first universities in the United States to sign an educational alliance with SAP ­– a move that has given its SAP students an edge in the job market.