Fostering Friendships - Enhancing Social Bonds in the Classroom
The Expanding Impact of It in Job Creation
1. THE EXPANDING IMPACT OF IT
IN JOB CREATION
Dr. Roger L. Norton, Dean
September 21, 2011
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3. Goldmann Sachs
Managing Partner
Managing Director of Technology
Vice President of Network Architecture
IBM
General Manager
9 Vice Presidents
6 Directors
Morgan Stanley
Vice President, Global Head of Windows Virtualization
and Remote Computing Engineering
EMC
Executive Vice President
CTO
Director of West Coast Research
iSpace
President
CEO
CFO
4. School of Computer Science & Mathematics
Computer Science
Information Technology & Systems
Preparing students to develop and implement software
systems
Improving the Performance of People in Organizations through
the use of Information Technology
Preparing students to design, implement and manage the
technological resources needed to support Internet and
Intranet installations.
5. Goals of the Programs
1. Prepare students for employment in a technology field or for graduate study in a
technology field.
2. Provide students with both theoretical knowledge and skills-based proficiencies in
the five core technology competencies: programming, hardware, data
communications, data management, and systems/software analysis and design.
3. Provide students with fundamental knowledge of business administration and
management so that graduates will be able to work effectively within businesses
and other organizations.
4. Develop interpersonal skills for working effectively on teams.
5. Develop effective written and oral communication skills.
6. Educate students about the behavioral, social, and ethical aspects of technology.
6. Operations & Process Management-12 credits
Info Tech & Systems
Concepts
Data Communication Internetworking
Info Tech & Systems
Concepts
Info Tech & Systems
Concepts
Systems and Software- 9 credits
Info Tech &
Systems Concepts
Introduction to
Programming
Arch. Of Hardware &
Software
Facilities Management- 6 credits
Info Tech & Systems
Concepts
Introduction to Facilities
Networking-9 credits
Managing IT
Organizations
System Design &
Analysis
Project Management
Security-9 credits
System Administration &
Management
Internet Security
Product Development & Financial Planning-9 credits
Info Tech & Systems
Concepts
Accounting for the
Data Center
Project
Management
Successful Completion of all six certificates leads to 7th Certificate as a
Certified Data Center Professional
Advanced Facilities Management
12 weeks/non-credit
The Greening of the Data Center
10 weeks/non-credit
7. Enterprise UNIX Systems Education
AIX on Power Certificate
Introduction to AIX on Power
Fundamentals of AIX Administration
Emerging Technologies
High Availability Storage Networking
HAS Networking I HAS Storage
Networking II
Dynamic Infrastructure
Dynamic Infrastructure-
in theory and practice
Virtualization
Business
Intelligence
Data Mining and
Predictive Analytics
Business Intelligence
9. 9
Countries Represented
• Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Switzerland
• Germany
• Canada
• India
• Spain
• South Africa
• China
• Saudi Arabia
• Czech Republic
• Sri Lanka
• England
• Portugal
• Poland
• Holland
• Denmark
10. School of Computer Science & Mathematics
Internships:
IBM Morgan Stanley
Goldman Sachs CitiBank
Intel Boerhinger Ingelheim
St. Paul’s Travelers GE Research
News America Beckton Dickenson
Progressive Insurance USAA
Cooperstown BHOF HSBC Bank
Marvel Comics NightWolf
Sandia National Lab. UBS
American Red Cross Microsoft
Intel Apple
Liberty Mutual Google
….
11. NSF STEM Scholarship Grant
Marist received a five-year NSF award of $550,000 to:
• Establish a CS and IT/IS Cohort Scholarship Program
• Increase the number and diversity of students in CS/ITS majors
• Fund full scholarships (including room and board) to a cohort of 12 academically-talented, ethnically
diverse, financially-disadvantaged students who entered Marist in Fall 2010
• Each student in cohort received:
Special summer orientation
State-of-the-art PC laptop
Two-semester course in game development and design
Internship and applied research opportunities
• Students have received special tutoring, individual counseling, special advisement, and special group
outings
• They will receive industry mentoring, career placement services in the future
Scholarship Opportunity increased applications to Computer Science and Information Technology by 80%
for Fall 2010 over Fall 2009.
To maintain the growth in CS and IT/IS applications, Marist offered 4 full Technology Scholarships for Fall
2011 without NSF funding.
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12. NSF ARI Grant
Marist received an NSF award of $690K to:
• Replace the CS and IT/IS lab in Lowell Thomas building with an expanded
CS, ITS, and Mathematics Research and Research Training laboratory in the
Hancock Center
• Grant covers the cost of fixed assets
• Grand funding started in July 2010
• Increases the floor space in the new lab
• Improves access to the new lab for all students and for handicapped students
• Improves power and air conditioning
• Improves UPS capability
• Provides Network redundancy to Donnelly Data Center
• Reserved floor space for expansion in future
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13. NSF MRI Grant Proposal
Marist received an NSF for a $680K MRI (major research
instrumentation) grant to:
• Add an enterprise computing system to the new research lab
z/10 or z/Enterprise processor
Storage devices
Network equipment
• To be used for research, applied research, and research training for
Marist Faculty
Faculty from other universities
Undergraduate and Graduate students
Applied research projects with industry partners
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14. 14
NSF CE-21 Grant Proposal
Marist applied to NSF for a $1.6M CE-21
(Computing Education for the 21st Century) grant to:
• Support NSF goal to create a new AP course in Computer Principles
• Develop a new online course that introduces computing principles early in the
High School curriculum
• Develop an online graduate course to train High School teachers to teach the
new AP course
• Offer both courses for Marist credit to 300 teachers and 300 students at no cost
• Partnering with:
− University of Arkansas
− Illinois State University
− North Carolina A & T State University
− Widener University
Application was submitted to NSF on April 26
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IBM and Marist College Joint Studies
IBM
Gets
•Collaborative
Research Projects
•Tools, S/W, Libraries
•Conference
presentations, demos,
Workshops, courseware
•Recruit top talent
•Direct Sales
•Sales Enablement –
Briefings/Reference Acct
•Identify
Intellectual
Property(IP) and/or
Joint Development
Agreement(JDA)
opportunities
Product
Ecosystem
Talent Pool
Sales
IP/JDA
A win-win alliance between Marist College, IBM, and Industry and/or
Government Partners
•SUR Grants
•Faculty Awards
Industry and/or Government
Partners
Cisco, rSmart, NYSTAR and Marist CCODC, Brocade,
NSF, SGHE, Sakai Community, Juniper
•IBM Internships
•Full-time hire – Many
Marist grads at IBM
•Access to IBM
hardware/software
and provides access
to many other
schools (z and p)
•Collaborative Research
Projects –Sakai
•Cutting edge technologies –
Cloud Computing
•Areas of mutual interest
Recruitment
Hardware
Research
Funding
(in-kind/cash)Marist
Gets
Key Focus Areas
Education for a Smarter Planet/Smarter
Classrooms
•Open source systems (Sakai enabled on IBM
HW/SW, Integration w/existing ERP systems)
•Cloud Computing PoC (K-12 SaaS hosting,
Virtualization, Project Greystone)
•Electronic Portfolios (Sakai OSP)
•Analytic Tools (Cognos, SPSS)
•Virtual Worlds (OpenSim)
Smarter/Dynamic Infrastructure
•Technology infrastructure (e.g. systems/data
centers, converged networks, SOA)
•Virtualization (e.g. hybrid multi-core systems,
cloud computing, server provisioning)
Course Development (29 total courses)
• z/OS, AIX/Power
•Converged Networking
• Dynamic Infrastructure
•Business Intelligence/Analytics
16. MID-HUDSON REGIONAL COUNCIL
IT/DATA CENTER CLUSTER
CO-CHAIRS:
ROGER NORTON, DEAN
SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS
MARIST COLLEGE
MICHAEL GEBELE, VP
STG SYSTEMS AGENDA DELIVERY
SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY GROUP