College of Innovation and Solutions

Help bridge the gap between business and information technology. Sometimes they work as IT Project Managers overseeing the implementation of a new application system, technology project or manage the IT staff. Professionals in this field may have additional specialties in:

• Quality assurance analysts work with programmers to make sure the programs work as they were designed.
• Program analysts do more than program! They also work with business to understand the needs of the company and how the programs can help improve the business.
• Systems designers or systems architects help manage the company information technology infrastructure, including choosing the hardware and software programs that the company will use in the workplace.

Provide assistance in companies to employees and customers.

• Computer network support specialists, provide technical support for employees.
• Computer user support specialists provide technical support for non-IT users.

Create and improve computer algorithms to help solve problems in business, science and other areas. Some professionals specialize in data mining of large datasets, which help them analyze data and find new ways to solve problems. These fields often require additional education at the graduate level. Professionals in this field may have additional specialties in:

• Data mining is a field that is very popular now and often includes both corporate data mining and client data retrieved from their visits to the company web site.
• Robotics is a field that studies how to create programs that work with physical objects such as a manufacturing assembly or a robot on Mars that can analyze the soil.
• Programming at this level is focused on development of new programming languages, tools and techniques.