We’re in the era of Big Data, living among Makers.
It’s truly a sign that a revolution is taking place when a university offers a curriculum that recognizes that we’re being flooded with information and that the inventors of today are doing their thing, each in a completely unique way, the New Haven Register reports.
The students of the just-announced New Engineering University [1], which will be affiliated with the University of New Haven [2], will be in the vanguard when it comes to earning academic degrees in such subjects, partnering with private industry to create engineers for a new epoch.
Big Data — if you haven’t heard about it, you will, and whether you do or not, if you have a computer or a smartphone, you’re already immersed. “Basically it’s a term that’s being used quite extensively,” said Dean Ronald Harichandran of UNH’s Tagliatela College of Engineering [3]. “We are basically flooded with data from every source.”
NEU, based in Silicon Valley, will offer a one-year master’s of engineering in Big Data, beginning in early 2014.
“The challenge is what to make of this data … how to glean information from this data,” Harichandran said. The degree will teach engineers “to deal with Big Data and extract information that is useful for running a business for improving productivity, selling goods, whatever.”
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