MS
in Engineering
(Telecommunication)
Telecommunications professionals make their
companies more efficient by understanding
the needs of their customers and leveraging
technology to meet those needs more effectively
than the competition.
While telecommunications technology used to
consist of only telephone, television, video,
and fax, today the industry has blossomed
to include cell phones, DVDs, digital cable,
and the Internet. Well-trained telecom technology
experts are needed to keep up with the industry's
constant innovations.
The field of telecommunications has exploded
in the last ten years, as Internet and mobile
technology comprise the most widely used forms
of communication and information sharing across
the world.
Telecommunications majors study two distinct
areas of technology and business. First, telecommunications
students learn to understand the hardware
and software that keep information flowing
freely. Many telecommunications programs expose
their students to courses in software programming
and hardware engineering.
Second, telecommunications majors learn how
to use that technology to share that information.
Students learn how to replace inefficient
cross-country business trips with effective
multi-media conferences. They discover how
a simple tool like a bar code scanner can
shave days off the time it takes to ship a
customer order from one coast to the other.
