Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidar Malki, University of Houston; Michael Gibson, University of Houston; Enrique Barbieri, University of Houston; William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

interdisciplinary graduate degrees inTechnology. Thus, new innovative, interdisciplinary, and online degrees are being sought.This paper presents a new interdisciplinary graduate program in Technology. The proposedprogram consists of 1) core courses, 2) specialized tracks, 3) Practicum/Internship, and 4)thesis/project as shown in Figure 1. The proposed curriculum involves multidisciplinary programssuch as Computer Engineering Technology, Electrical Power Engineering Technology,Mechanical Engineering Technology, Construction Management, Information Systems, LogisticsTechnology, and Technology Leadership and Supervision. Thus, it allows each program to haveits own specialty while being flexible enough to grow other disciplines.The primary motivation for