• Recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in continuing professional development.
• Students in this program will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the broad themes in Information Technology.
• Students in this program will demonstrate a broad knowledge base of information technology to facilitate effective communication with those involved in the IT industry.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge of computing and mathematics to analyze a problem and identify and define the computing requirements appropriate to its solution.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to use current techniques, skills, and tools necessary for computing practice.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to design and deploy software applications on multiple software-hardware platforms that interact with database systems and widely used network services.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to manage information technology projects by incorporating or enhancing networks, databases, operating systems, and applications.

• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to interpret the internet Uniform Resource Locator (URL) strings.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to decompose an internet data packet into its constituent sub-packet elements.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to apply telecommunications principles to design and configure a network.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to evaluate and recommend cybersecurity systems and solutions for network defense and monitoring.

Learning Outcomes from the Systems Infrastructures area: 

• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to identify the core hardware elements of a computing system.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to articulate the role of an operating system and identify the hardware-software interfaces an operating system defines.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to use system tools on a given platform to extract and interpret various systems attributes.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to identify and classify system virtualization infrastructure and the application of virtual machines in cloud computing deployments.

• Develop information technology solutions by evaluating user requirements in the systems development environment.
• Students in this program will be capable of enumerating the principal steps involved in deploying large software applications.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to classify and manage very large data sets with various software tools.
• Students in this program will demonstrate the ability to apply modern management techniques and systems to the execution of a project from start to finish, achieving predetermined objectives of scope, quality, time and cost.