New INTM and ITM Courses

Topics in Industry: Industrial Futures (INTM 414/514) provides students with an understanding of many industrial sectors and the influences that are forcing change. All aspects of industry will be considered, with each topic presented by the INTM faculty member most practiced in that area of expertise. Course coverage will include: history of industry, supply chain, e-commerce, management, inventory, manufacturing, industrial facilities, resource management, electronics industry, chemical industry, alternate energies, marketing, entrepreneurship, computers as tools, and other specialty areas.

Industrial Risk Management (INTM 418/518) is designed to prepare students for managing a critical incident, including understanding risk and business impact, emergency preparedness, and contingency planning and damage control.

Vulnerability Analysis and Control/Ethical Hacking (ITM 543) addresses hands-on ethical hacking, penetration testing, and detection of malicious probes and their prevention. It provides students with in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge of the vulnerabilities of networks of computers including the networks themselves, operating systems, and important applications. Integrated with the lectures are laboratories focusing on use of open source and freeware tools; students will learn in a closed environment to probe, penetrate, and hack other networks.

Topics in Information Technology: Compliance Issues (ITM 595)

Introduction to Open Source Operating Systems (ITM 456) Students will learn to set up and configure an industry-standard open source operating system, including the actual installation of the operating system on the student workstation. Also addressed are applications and graphical user interfaces as well as support issues for open source software.

Dynamic Web Page Development (ITM 565) Students will work with Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash and Flex.

Instructional Technologies (ITM 537) In this course students will create, assess, and deploy current technologies used for K-College instruction and corporate training environments. Topics covered include developing training materials, courses, individualized instruction, websites, multimedia projects, and online instruction in educational settings. Focus will be given to modern programming environments and models for developing instructional materials.

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