Bachelor of Science Degrees

Department of Applied Information Technology

• Information Technology
  
  

  Aims to meet existing and emerging needs of the information technology industry by educating new IT workers in current principles and practices in information technology and their applications. The IT graduate is one who is versed in the technical aspects of IT, but whose role in the modern enterprise will focus on the use and management of IT resources rather than the development of leading-edge intellectual property. IT graduates fill jobs that focus on the application of IT in an increasing number of emerging sub-disciplines including web development, computer graphics, information systems, telecommunication, network administration, and information security. Because of its heavy reliance on courses offered by departments across The Volgenau School of IT& Engineering (IT&E), the IT program is managed by Department of Applied Information Technology.
  
  

Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering

• Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

  Civil and infrastructure engineers use state-of-the-art information technology to understand the nexus of communication, transportation, energy, water, and land. Their studies allow them to design ways these resources can best fill complex environmental, economic, political, and social needs. Towns, cities, and businesses thrive when civil and infrastructure engineers provide adequate, appropriate, reliable, robust, and cost-effective infrastructure systems. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that there will be 78,000 job openings for people with these skills during the next seven years.

  
  

Department of Computer Science

• Applied Computer Science

  The Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Computer Science (BS ACS) has been created for those students who want and need the knowledge and expertise of computer science to work in one of the many disciplines that require advanced computing techniques. These fields do not merely “use” computing but create new and interesting problems for the computer scientist.

  
  

• Computer Science

  Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made their billions in this field, exploring cyberspace and creating the software that allows people to use computers and the Internet. Computer scientists design, implement, and maintain the software and computer systems used by almost all professions. They learn the technologies needed to acquire, represent, store, transmit, transform, and use information in digital form.

  
  

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Computer Engineering

  Combining expertise in electrial engineering and computer science (see descriptions above), computer engineering provides students with a range of intergrated skills in dealing with hardware and software. Computer engineers are the "Renaissance scholars" of technical fields; versatile and innovative.

  
  
• Electrical Engineering

  Electrical engineers design and build the equipment that most of us take for granted---computers, cell phones, televisions, rockets, satellites, communications and computer networks, mobile radios, environmental control systems, robots, weapons, and cars, to name a few. Electrical engineering is the foundation on which computer engineering and computer science rest. Students in this program learn the fundamentals of electrical engineering and then choose a focus in one of the major fields of electronics---communications, networks and signal processing, computer engineering, or controls and robots.

  
  

Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research

• Systems Engineering

  If you like playing SimCity, this could be the field for you. Called the "people-oriented" engineers, systems engineers define, develop, and integrate such systems as computer networks, cars, intelligent robots, stereos, subways, and universitites. Where other engineering disciplines typically concentrate on individual aspects of a system (electronics, ergonomics, software), systems engineering, as its name implies, focuses on the system as a whole. Systems engineers work with a company or with project stakeholders to define what a system must do, to analyze the cost and performance of a system, and to manage the development of the system.