{"id":241028,"date":"2026-05-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/cte-technology-team-achieves-industry-certification\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:05:07","slug":"cte-technology-team-achieves-industry-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/cte-technology-team-achieves-industry-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"CTE technology team achieves industry certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.siu.edu\/2026\/05\/050726-cte-technology-team-achieves-industry-certification.php\">CTE technology team achieves industry certification<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.siu.edu\/2026\/05\/050726-cte-technology-team-achieves-industry-certification.php\">https:\/\/news.siu.edu\/2026\/05\/050726-cte-technology-team-achieves-industry-certification.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.siu.edu\">news.siu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">May 07, 2026<\/p>\n<h2><strong>CTE technology team achieves industry certification<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>SIU Carbondale\u2019s Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) is celebrating a major milestone that will strengthen classroom innovation across the campus.<\/p>\n<p>Each of CTE\u2019s instructional media systems technicians is now a certified technology specialist (CTS) \u2014 a globally recognized credential in the audiovisual industry. The certification \u201cmarks a significant investment in the expertise behind SIU\u2019s learning environments,\u201d said Craig Engstrom, CTE director.<\/p>\n<p>Instructional media systems technicians (IMST) \u201cplay a critical role in designing, installing and supporting the technology that powers SIU&#8217;s classrooms \u2014 from HyFlex spaces to accessible teaching spaces,\u201d Engstrom said. \u201cWith all team members now CTS-certified, SIU joins a small and select group of institutions with fully credentialed audiovisual support staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fewer than 12,000 professionals worldwide hold the certification, which signals advanced technical knowledge and a commitment to industry-best practices, Engstrom said.<\/p>\n<p>SIU\u2019s IMST team consists of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kelly Caringer, chief instructional media systems engineer.<\/li>\n<li>Gray Griffith,\u00a0instructional media systems technician.<\/li>\n<li>Lucas Luper, instructional media systems technician.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For SIU faculty and students, the impact is practical and immediate. A fully certified team means more reliable classroom technology, stronger support for innovative teaching methods, and faster adoption of emerging tools that enhance learning, Engstrom said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis milestone reflects our commitment to excellence behind the scenes,\u201d he said. \u201cOur IMST team does far more than maintain classroom systems \u2014 they proactively design and engineer environments that are intuitive, reliable and forward-looking. From testing Microsoft Teams Rooms to exploring AI-driven camera systems, they are working toward deploying new systems that will shape the future of teaching and learning at SIU for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.siu.edu\/2026\/05\/050726-cte-technology-team-achieves-industry-certification.php\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CTE technology team achieves industry certification https:\/\/news.siu.edu\/2026\/05\/050726-cte-technology-team-achieves-industry-certification.php Publish Date: 2026-05-07 12:00:00 Source Domain: news.siu.edu May&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/siu.edu\/_assets\/images\/siu-pulliam-clocktower.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66,62],"class_list":["post-241028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-emerging","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241030,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241028\/revisions\/241030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}