This project is intended to assist professors with the advising process and make more efficient, as it is infeasible for one advisor to memorize the specific needs of every student that they advise. Our group has created an application that will be used to generate plans of study for Engineering students at LSSU. The application has an interactive interface for ease-of-use and creates a customized plan of study for students based upon the classes for which they have credit, the classes which they still need to take, and the prerequisite chains for those remaining Engineering classes. The project was designed to allow extension in the future to cover other degree programs at LSSU.Choosing a Career in Computer Science
Job outlook is 22%, faster than average with a projected increase of 222,600 jobs between 2012 – 2022. That means there are jobs are available now and will continue to grow in numbers in the future.
The skills you need to solve problems…and the skills that employers need to solve theirs.
Our world often emphasizes technological skills, but that is a shallow approach. Those “mad skills” will be out-dated in a handful of years. Our curriculum is designed, maintained, and updated to keep pace with the real world, but it is also grounded in the most important skills of all: the ability to think and the ability to learn.
Our students apply and adapt what they’ve learned in our projects courses, giving them real world experience before they graduate.
In the sophomore projects course you will to learn how to analyze the needs of an actual client, to design and implement a solution for their problem, and to deliver that project on time.
In your senior year, you will complete a two semester senior capstone experience where you will be challenged to manage larger and more complex client projects. You will develop “soft skills” to communicate with clients, to prepare written documentation and reports, to deliver presentations and training to clients, and to work effectively on teams.
Our project clients come from the university, state and local government, and corporations. The work can be a software or networking project, an internship with a local corporation, or even a research project!
By the time you graduate, you will be prepared not just to thrive in today’s world, but to change tomorrow’s world. That’s what thinkers and learners do.
