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Program Learning Outcomes

Described below are the learning outcomes of sixteen programs offered at International Technological University (ITU) in Associate of Arts, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees:

Associate of Arts in Business Administration

Upon completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Understand general education concepts.
  • Be able to apply critical thinking skills in the integration of quantitative and qualitative information.
  • Be able to demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills.
  • Understand the foundation of humanities, social sciences, math, and natural sciences, and/or baccalaureate degree work.
  • Be familiar with prerequisites for entry into a Bachelor of Business program at the junior level.
  • Be able to demonstrate the skills necessary for research and life-long learning.
  • Be able to raise awareness of global and multicultural concerns.
  • Understand the role of technology.
  • Be able to gather, analyze, and present information, as well as enhance instructional practices and facilitate professional productivity and communication.

Master of Arts in Digital Arts

The Master of Arts in digital arts program is a well-rounded, project-based learning program geared to give students practical skills creating digital projects for the market—from conception and production to packaging and marketing.

Students will learn all the concepts and skills necessary for taking a project from conception to production, including story creation, visualization & design, animation, filmmaking, business marketing, and the scripting and authorship of web-based promotion. These skills are acquired via practical execution of the creation, production and promotion of various structured projects, designed for the mastery of skills in the digital arts field.

Upon completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Be able to create digital projects for the market – from conception and production to packaging and marketing.
  • Understand how to deliver production, including story creation, visualization, and design by acquiring structured digital production skills.
  • Be able to develop animation, film, and web design, having completed a minimum of three projects.
  • Be familiar with the filmmaking industry by learning the production pipeline for digital production and gaining valuable practical work experience as a team member within the pipeline.
  • Know business marketing via traditional methods and web-based promotion.

Master of Business Administration

The objective of the MBA program is to provide students with the skills and knowledge essential for various concentrations in business. International Technological University encourages the development of those skills, which are integral to all management activities, such as ethics, communication, teamwork, global viewpoint, use of technology, and problem-solving. In addition, the program reflects the increasing diversity in the workplace and helps students understand how diversity can provide a competitive edge.

Upon completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Be able to make ethical decisions in a business context.
  • Understand various aspects of a business environment, including legal, regulatory, political, social, and technical.
  • Be able to write financial reporting and conduct market analyses.
  • Know how to operate a business in the international arena with awareness and sensitivity to foreign cultures.
  • Understand the creation and distribution of goods and services.
  • Understand human behavior in organizations, including the ability to lead and work in teams.
  • Be able to effectively demonstrate verbal and written communication skills.
  • Be able to apply quantitative analysis.
  • Be able to demonstrate multicultural awareness.
  • Be able to assume a leadership role.
  • Know integrative and cross-functional pedagogy, linking business theory with business practice, to critically analyze current problems.
  • Know how to customize SAP on business modules.

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

The Master of Science in electrical engineering program provides students with the knowledge, competency, and skills necessary for career advancement in the engineering industry and prepares them for further research and teaching of electrical engineering.

Upon completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Understand the fundamentals of mathematics, science and engineering.
  • Understand design specifications to analyze and solve engineering problems and implement a design specification toward a complete engineering solution by applying knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering.
  • Know professional and ethical responsibility in the accomplishment of engineering tasks.
  • Be able to apply economic engineering solutions.
  • Be able to read, write, listen, and speak effectively, and to communicate significant technical information in a clear and concise manner.
  • Understand and identify the various needs of customers.
  • Be able to work productively and successfully as a team member.
  • Be able to enhance their engineering skills through experimentation, discovery, and verification of ideas and concepts.

Master of Science in Computer Engineering

Many societies around the world experience a rapidly growing need for computer engineers. The areas in which modern computer engineers work are comprised of the design of modern computerized electronics, embedded systems, microprocessors, ever smaller and more powerful computers, and “hardware-close” programming. Depending on which individual courses students choose in compliance with this curriculum, the outcomes of their studies may show variety in detail, but will, in the basic structure, always fulfill the key elements considered necessary for successful work as a computer engineer.

Computer engineering is a discipline that combines elements of both electrical engineering and computer science. Many students consider an MS in computer engineering worth earning, since the full breadth of knowledge used in the design and application of computers is well beyond the scope of an undergraduate degree. Furthermore, in the United
States computer engineering belongs to the three disciplines with the highest starting salaries.

Upon completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Be able to design analog and digital circuits.
  • Be able to write “hardware-close” programs.
  • Understand digital signal processing and digital circuits.
  • Understand computer architecture and organization, hardware/software integration, and human/computer interaction.
  • Understand computer operating systems and embedded systems.
  • Understand Unix operating system.
  • Understand the nature and behavior of algorithms.
  • Be able to apply programming and software engineering fundamentals. Be familiar the database system.
  • Have awareness of societal impacts and professional responsibilities.

Master of Science in Software Engineering

any societies around the world experience a rapidly growing need for software engineers. The areas in which modern software engineers work are almost boundless. Depending on which individual courses students choose in compliance with this curriculum, the outcomes of their studies may show variety in detail, but will, in the basic structure, always fulfill the key elements considered necessary for successful work as a software engineer.

Upon completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Be able to apply SWEBOK principles and methodologies.
  • Be able to apply object-oriented methodology for software design and other programming paradigms, such as aspect-oriented methodology, functional decomposition, etc.
  • Understand the software life-cycle.
  • Understand the importance of requirements-gathering and clear requirements-specification.
  • Understand the importance of developer/customer interaction.
  • Be able to choose a proper software development model (e.g., agile development, extreme programming, RAD, etc.).
  • Be able to master at least one design language (e.g., UML).
  • Be able to apply various testing strategies (e.g., white box, black box, integration testing, etc.).
  • Know how to avoid software development pitfalls.
  • Be able to apply important management principles in the context of software development (i.e., leadership, managing human resources, managing the project and the process as a whole).
  • Know one or more important programming languages (e.g., C++, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.).
  • Know essential computer science topics, such as searching, sorting, hashing, trees, B-trees, lists, stacks, queues, and RSA encryption.
  • Understand computational complexity (e.g., Big-O runtime order, NP-completeness, etc.).
  • Know the inner-workings of a relational database.
  • Be able to design, program, and manage a database.
  • Understand the essential requirements of a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI).
  • Be able to design a user-friendly GUI.
  • Understand 3-D graphics concepts.

Master of Science in Engineering Management

The program of engineering management prepares engineers and technical professionals to manage, lead, and excel in today’s increasingly complex hi-tech environment. It is designed to help professionals working in technical fields to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve their career goals.

Specifically, successful completion of the program will equip graduates to lead and manage project teams that consist of professionals with diverse technical and cultural backgrounds.

This program is for anyone who has a bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, mathematics, computer science, or a closely related field to pursue a master’s degree.

Upon completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Be able to apply skills pertinent to the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial management of both existing and emerging technologies.
  • Understand engineering safety, strategies, and life-cycle properties of a project.
  • Be able to estimate and control engineering cost, including planning and scheduling, labor productivity, alternative methods for project delivery, and computer applications, such as e-business solutions.

Master of Science in Healthcare Management

Understanding core areas of healthcare and implementing them effectively on a daily basis is one of the biggest challenges most healthcare managers are facing today. Our healthcare management courses concentrate on six core areas and are taught by practicing experts from local industries; our faculty and guest speakers include experts from healthcare, IT, and software fields. The core areas include: technology, economics, finance, management & leadership, and cultural understanding.

The courses are relevant students’ work experience, exploring topics through various means that include group discussions, presentations, peer-to-peer interactions, and supplementary reading. Students will be equipped with the tools necessary to impact their personnel on-the-job performance and develop an awareness that will benefit their personal and career lives.

Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Be able to make ethical decisions about healthcare issues.
  • Understand various aspects of a healthcare environment, including legal, regulatory, political, social, and technical.
  • Understand the professional/leadership role in health environments to improve the quality of health.
  • Know healthcare laws and regulations in order to proactively follow them.
  • Know one’s own professional values, potential career pathways, and healthcare role development opportunities.
  • Understand the structure of healthcare delivery and finances.
  • Understand human behavior in healthcare organizations, including the ability to lead and work in teams.
  • Be able to effectively demonstrate verbal and written communication skills.
  • Be able to apply and evaluate problem-solving methods and performance improvement techniques.
  • Be able to demonstrate awareness of factors affecting health, including culture, age, gender and socio-economic status.
  • Be able to apply knowledge from multidisciplinary resources to critically analyze current healthcare issues.
  • Know the components of an Electronic Health Record, and other uses of Information Technology in Healthcare.

Green MBA

The Green MBA aims to prepare students in meeting everyday human needs while preserving the environment through the sustainable use of resources, both in the present and future. Green MBA focuses on developing skills required for environmentally conscientious behavior while emphasizing the balance of financial health and global sustainability.

Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Be able to set short- and long-term goals for sustainable business practices.
  • Be able to develop strategies in line with environmental responsibilities.
  • Understand compliance issues relevant to contractual and legal requirements for environment and sustainability.
  • Be able to obtain tax benefits/tax reduction on clean energy.
  • Be able to make financial decisions in line with “going green.”
  • Understand human behavior in organizations, including the ability to lead and work in teams.
  • Be able to effectively demonstrate verbal and written communication skills.
  • Be able to apply quantitative analysis.
  • Be able to demonstrate multicultural awareness.
  • Be able to assume a leadership role.

MBA in Bio-Management

The Masters in Business Administration Bio Management focused program is to provide students with the skills and knowledge essential in Medical and Pharmaceutical field. This curriculum developed to introduce the students into structure, organisation, and marketing of companies in a scientifically profound and practice oriented way, with emphasis on the peculiar conditions found in the various countries. The working group has to develop for this course that the students will be prepared and qualified for everyday tasks in small and middle-sized companies with biotechnological focus (hospitals, pharmaceutical companies etc.), but also for large scale enterprises like the chemical industry. Students will learn to understand and judge economical problems and questions concerning management in the context of everyday business and will therefore be capable of focused and pragmatic decision making, also in difficult and complex situations. At the end of the course the students should be fit for starting their own business.
Upon completion of this program, graduates will:
  • Be able to find and solve common ethical and moral issues regarding clinical research.
  • Understand various aspects of Bio Management environment, including legal, regulatory, political, social, and technical.
  • Be able to write financial reporting and conduct Clinical Trials.
  • Understand the protocol Development and Scientific Writing
  • Understand the professional/leadership role in Bio environments.
  • Know one’s own professional values, potential career pathways, and Bio management role.
  • Understand human behavior in Bio organizations, including the ability to lead and work in teams.
  • Be able to effectively demonstrate verbal and written communication skills.
  • Be able to apply and evaluate problem-solving methods and performance improvement techniques.
  • Be able to demonstrate awareness of factors affecting Bio environment.
  • Be able to apply knowledge from multidisciplinary resources to critically analyze current Bio management issues.
  • Know the components of an Electronic Health Record, and other uses of Information Technology in Healthcare.

Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Management

  • Be able to apply knowledge from the arts, humanities and sciences in the planning and development of professional care.
  • Be able to be efficient as evidenced by progressing from awareness to expertise in the following proficiencies: professional values, professional role development, and critical thinking.
  • Understand the professional/leadership role in current and future health environments to improve the quality of health.
  • Be able to communicate ideas effectively in both written and oral forms and act professionally within healthcare circumstances.
  • Be able to analyze the impact of different political systems, cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, and values on an individual.
  • Know health law and regulations in order to find solutions to health management issues.
  • Be able to assess situations within a healthcare environment with ethical implications and identify ways to deal with them.
  • Be able to evaluate data using quantitative problem-solving processes.

Doctor of Business Administration

The objectives of the DBA Program include the following:

  • Integrate theory and practice in decision making in complex, organizational environments in order to help these institutions adapt to changing circumstances.
  • Present an academic program of excellence linked to management development.
  • Encourage innovative thinking.
  • Promote and maintain a culture that values cross-disciplinary approaches and diversity.
  • Provide a rigorous basis for applied workplace research.
  • Recognize the influence of technology in bringing about organizational change.
  • Provide extended and advanced training in management linked to workplace projects and investigations.

Upon completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Understand research design and methods necessary to undertake a doctoral-level research project.
  • Be able to design, implement, and evaluate a major research project dealing with business and managerial issues in the context of effectively managing technology, innovation and change in a business environment.
  • Be able to demonstrate the capacity to conduct original research and to apply, test, and/or examine ideas, whether their own or those of others.
  • Understand the relationship between their own research theme and associated literature and the wider corpus of knowledge.
  • Be able to achieve a greater level of effectiveness as a professional practitioner in managing technology, innovation and related organizational change.
  • Be able to perform in management consulting, in-company action research, and academic research, leading
    to publication of work in internationally-acclaimed refereed journals.

PhD in Electrical Engineering

The PhD in electrical engineering is an academic/research degree that prepares students for careers in research and teaching of electrical engineering. This program is administered through the Engineering School of Graduate Studies.

Upon completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Be able to demonstrate high professional ethics and mastery of fundamental concepts of electrical engineering.
  • Be able to identify, investigate, formulate, and solve new problems of interest, conduct independent scholarly research, and contribute new ideas and engineering concepts to society.
  • Be able to think analytically and demonstrate knowledge and language skills to serve in positions of technical leadership.
  • Be able to demonstrate independence and assume major professional and ethical responsibilities in their careers.
  • Understand business and engineering economics.
  • Be able to clearly and effectively communicate difficult technical concepts.
  • Understand and identify various needs of customers.
  • Be able to work as a team member productively and successfully.
  • Be able to demonstrate a high level of academic skills in education, technical creativity, leadership, and management.

PhD in Software Engineering

The PhD in software engineering is an academic/research degree that prepares students for careers in research and teaching of software engineering methods. This program incorporates courses from the departments of software engineering and computer engineering. Prior to entering this program, students must pass a qualifying examination on
software engineering theory. Finally, candidates will write and defend a dissertation, in which they develop new results in software engineering.

Upon completion of this program, graduates will:

  • Be able to explain, apply, and extend basic software engineering methodologies.
  • Be able to teach software engineering theory and methodology, and advise doctoral students.
  • Be able to apply advanced software engineering methodologies in industrial, governmental, and university research organizations.
  • Be able to develop new software engineering methodologies.
  • Be able to serve as research collaborators, consultants, and team leaders.
  • Be able to demonstrate proficiency in software architecture design, software engineering management, requirement analysis, and the interpretation of software-quality matrices.
  • Be able to demonstrate awareness of the problems involved in software development and engineering management.
  • Be able to initiate a new software engineering project and apply software engineering methodology to the project life-cycle.
  • Be able to demonstrate proficiency in presentation and publication of software engineering research findings.

PhD in Computer Science

The PhD in computer science is an academic/research degree that certifies the capacity of the graduate for a career in research and/or teaching of Computer Science or in work in industrial or governmental organizations where advanced Computer Science results or methods are applied.
Upon completion of this program, graduates will:
  • Be able to explain, apply, and extend basic Computer Science knowledge.
  • Be able to teach Computer Science theory and methodologies, and advise doctoral students.
  • Understand and be able to apply advanced Computer Science results in industrial, governmental, and university research organizations.
  • Be able to develop new Computer Science methodologies.
  • Be able to serve as research collaborators, consultants, and team leaders in academics, industry and government.
  • Demonstrate awareness of the problems caused by the application of computers and computer science in society.
  • Be able to proficiently present and publish Computer Science research findings.
Degree Requirements

Changes in Degree Requirements. ITU policies and requirements change periodically and may not be immediately reflected in campus publications. New degree requirements, however, are not imposed retroactively on continuing students. If degree requirements are changed, student may complete their degree programs under the requirement in effect at the time of their initial enrollment (readmission, if they have discontinued degree status). They have the option of electing to be governed by the new requirements if they so desire, provided that all requirements of one catalog are met. Students who interrupt their enrollment without prior formal approval lose their status as students. If they want to return they must apply for readmission. For readmitted students the requirements for the degree are those published in the catalog at the time of admission, or any subsequent catalog, provided all the requirements of one catalog are met.

ITU Hi-Tech Education

ITU is a hi-tech university in the Silicon Valley and uses the latest technologies and methodologies to deliver cutting edge education and instruction. Therefore, ALL ITU students are required to bring laptop computers to class.

New &Continuing Students

All first semester students are required to participate in the ITU Apple Laptop Lease to Own Program. Continuing students (enrolled prior to Fall/2007) will be required to show ownership of a laptop computer that is up to or exceeds the ITU configuration standards (see ITU IT Manager for specific configuration standards) upon registration for the Fall/2007 or later term. If a continuing student does not have a laptop that complies with university regulations, then that student is also required to participate in ITU’s Lease to Own program.

General Education Requirements for Graduation

All students must complete at least 30 semester units in general education, in each of the following four areas:

Written/oral communications 6 units
Reasoning skills (including mathematics and natural sciences) 6 units
Humanities/creative arts 9 units
Social/political/behavioral sciences: 9 units

The following is an example of the stated requirements:

  • Composition, creative writing, advanced ESL;
  • Chemistry, general physics, critical thinking, logic biology, geology, calculus, drafting, astronomy;
  • Foreign languages, literature, philosophy, fine arts, ethnic studies, religion;
  • History, economics, political science, sociology, psychology, environmental studies, business law, organizational behavior.
  • College-level courses, which are not considered to be general education, may be transferred to ITU as general electives upon approval from the university registrar.
  • Specific requirements for the Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science are as follows:
  • Satisfy the BS degree program admission requirements.
  • Successfully complete a minimum of 60 units with a minimum of 12 units in applied sciences and a minimum of 21 units obtained from the Departments of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering.
  • A maximum of 12 units from the joint seminars, independent study, and the research courses can be applied for credit towards the Bachelor of Science degreeStudents who interrupt their enrollment without prior formal approval lose their status as students. If they want to return they must apply for readmission. For readmitted students the requirements for the degree are those published in the catalog at the time of admission, or any subsequent catalog, provided all the requirements of one catalog are met.