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Digital information technologies have become pervasive in science, engineering, manufacturing, business, finance, culture, law and government, dramatically changing the way people work and live. The proliferation and significance of these new technologies demands a new focus in Information Technology education – one that remains rigorous and technically oriented, but is simultaneously devoted to integrating which these complex digital information systems will be employed.
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The students in Information Technology study the design and management of complex information systems. Just as structural engineers and nanofabricators use physics at radically different scales, so also is there a scale difference between the focus of IT and the more traditional, look-under-the-hood graduates in Computer Engineering. Rather than focusing on the computing and communication technologies that underlie digital information systems, the IT program of study emphasizes information systems engineering in broad application contexts, where issues at the confluence of information technology, and management are the primary concerns. Students in the major specialize in one of two options. The Management Sciences (MS) option teaches methods for quantitative decision making and their application to Information Technology (IT), as well as the broader role that IT plays in making these methods effective. The information Science option educates students in methods for the creation, representation, organization, access, and analysis of information digital form. |
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