I am passionate about helping students learn to break large, difficult problems into small, manageble tasks and use technology to solve them. It is my goal for students to be prepared for real world execution on the job today and to also be equipped to learn as new technologies emerge.
In this class students learn fundamental networking concepts and how the Internet works. We tackle topics such as IP addressing, firewalls, ports, DNS, etc. After learning basic concepts students dive into Microsoft Azure. In Azure, students get hands on practice with virtual machines, storage, web & static applications, and databases. The final in this class is the "AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals" certification exam. Thanks to donations from alumni, students can take this certification exam on campus, for free.
In fall 2021, 14 students (25% of class) earned their certification at the end of class.
While participating in this class, will get a broad exposure to information security topics including introductory concepts, physical security, access controls, attacks, and defenses. We also discuss management issues surrounding information security as well as current topics and ethical scenarios. Throughout the class we frequently change perspectives from the IT administrator to the CEO, to the casual home user, to the hacker. The class seeks to make students aware of a broad range of topics and develop a security mindset regardless of their career choices.
"Data wrangling" encompasses collecting, cleaning, transforming, integrating, and describing data. It is estimated that data scientists spend up to 80% of their time on data wrangling tasks. In addition to being the most time-consuming step of most analytics workflows, wrangling is critical, as it impacts the outcome of all subsequent experiments/analyses. This course introduces essential R programming skills for data wrangling.
This course is designed to teach you much of the technology and many of the theories for managing a digital “product”. This could be a website or application, but it can also be a machine learning model or digital dashboard.
You will then learn to map, measure, and improve backstage business processes that align with customer touchpoints along their journey. We will consider automation to improve both the customer and the employee experience associated with these business processes. We will learn both application automation using Excel VBA as well as robotic process automation.