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Date Posted: 04/30/03 2:41am
Author: zzzza
Author Host/IP: 68.6.61.35
Subject: Re: Why does I.T. want to move to Coll of Ag?
In reply to: CPColin 's message, "Re: Why does I.T. want to move to Coll of Ag?" on 04/30/03 1:22am

I graduated from the College of Business and if I remember correctly, Industrial Tech wasn't always part of the COB. Now, it's really the oddball program in the college. There is practically zero crossover between IT and the other business concentrations. I never knew any IT majors from being around the OCOB for days and weeks on end and always wondered why the heck it was in the COB. Perhaps it's the redheaded stepchild of the college. Seems like a strange admin move from the past.

The IT students may have a point--none of the professors and administrators I knew in the OCOB had any interest in the IT program. Actually the rub may be that IT was originally designed to be the interface between engineering and business: it involves tech skills and also the skills necessary to manage technology and the processes/people using technology. This is a little simplistic, but I always pictured IT producing floor-level managers in change of production, quality control and people. From an old friend I knew who graduated IT, it seems to be the major that a lot of engineers "flunk" into. I think many of these former engineers don't actually want to truly learn skills encompassed in Industrial Tech, but instead want "engineering-lite" and figure that the College of Ag would be more likely to give them that.

Actually, now I see that Dr. Sena is their chair. No wonder they want out.

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