What Makes Us Different? The Right Balance.
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We balance your education to include traditional elements, specialized expertise in your field of study, and significant career-oriented experiential components so you graduate with experiences that make you more prepared and competitive in your career and your life.
It begins with a FOUNDATION in general education courses so you can create competencies in areas such as critical thinking and problem solving, effective communication, understanding global and societal issues, and quantitative reasoning. The development of SPECIALIZED expertise in your major follows so you gain competencies areas such as applications of technology, teamwork and collaboration, and management and economics of technologies. We add EXPERIENTIAL components to your education that bring the world of work into the classroom and the world of work becomes the classroom through our mentors, capstone projects, case studies, internships and corporate faculty.
What’s the result? You learn it, you know it, and you get to do it. Regardless of your major, you graduate with eight core competencies that employers and community leaders desire so you possess the skills necessary to enjoy a long-term career.