Mark Engler, technical director and assistant professor of theatre arts, recently published the results from a nationwide job satisfaction survey among theatre technical directors in the Summer 2012 edition of Theatre Design and Technology, a journal published by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.

The survey, which concluded in 2011, compared current results with similar surveys conducted in 1987 and 1997. The goal of the project was to identify areas of concern common to technical directors, compare the information to previous studies and use the results to strategize ways to address issues of concern.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.