Industrial Technology

Industrial technologists are technically oriented management professionals who develop, manage, and control production and manufacturing systems. Graduates of the program assume leadership positions in a wide range of business and industrial organizations. They play a crucial role in optimizing organizational productivity. The Industrial Technology degree program provides four concentrations.

 Industrial Management Concentration

This concentration is designed to prepare graduates for career leadership and management positions in a technical environment. Graduates from this concentration are exposed to courses intended to help students understand the many different organizational elements and functions composing industrial operations. Students completing this concentration will develop a broad-based, cross-sectional/functional understanding as a “generalist” management professional.

Precision Manufacturing Concentration

This concentration is designed to prepare graduates for career leadership and management positions in a computer-intensive/automated manufacturing environment. Graduates from this concentration are exposed to courses with specialized technical application in the area of computer-aided design/manufacturing, computer-numeric-control programming (CNC), industrial robotics, automated material handling, electronic control technology, computer-integrated manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and systems integration. Students completing this concentration will develop a focused understanding of manufacturing operations as a “specialist” managerially oriented professional.

Information and Communications Technology Concentration

 This concentration is designed to prepare graduates for career leadership and management positions in a computer applications-oriented environment integral to modern business and industry. Students in this concentration take courses that emphasize theory and application relating to the management and operation of computer and technical systems used for communications, information management, control technology, and publishing. Students completing this concentration will develop a focused understanding of computer applications-based and data/information-intensive operations. Students completing this concentration may elect also to complete minors in computer science, management information systems, or business administration.

Construction Management Concentration

This concentration is designed to prepare graduates for advancement opportunities in construction-related industries primarily as site managers, superintendents, project managers, directors of operations, and construction managers. Students in this concentration take courses that emphasize theories and applications of planning, managing, directing, organizing, and controlling construction operations.

Undergraduate Degrees & Minors:

Industrial Technology

Industrial Management
Precision Manufacturing
Electro-mechanical Systems
Information & Communications Technolgy
Construction Management (Degree)
Construction Management (Certificate)

Applied Technical Leadership

Minors in Industrial Technology

References

Fall 08 Course Schedule

Early Student Success WebSite

DOT Writing Manual

Research & Scholarship

University of Southern Maine Department of Technolgoy
211 John Mitchell Center, Gorham, Maine 04038
Phone: 207-780-5440 Fax: 207-780-5129