Technical Education

The University of Pittsburgh's new master's degree in data science, delivered fully online through Coursera, will teach core computational concepts, data management, programming for analysis and other subjects.

Watertown City School District and nine others in New York state will begin piloting an educational program in 2024 developed by teachers and Micron to interest and train students in semiconductor technology.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories recently hosted its third annual daylong Hour of Code at Potlatch Elementary School, where a coding education program taught students to build their own animations and mini-games.

For Computer Science Education Week, computer science students in Colorado are using free coding games to teach the subject to elementary students at area schools.

Enrollment at Georgia's technical college system is up 10.6 percent from the same point a year ago, and several schools are on track for record enrollment highs after having dropped nearly 10 percent during the pandemic.

The Strategic Ohio Council for Higher Education's internship program for high school juniors and seniors connects them with jobs at local technology companies that pay at least $50,000 per year.

As winners of Sacramento State University's entrepreneurship competition, the college-completion tool Inspirame and the duck-tracking app AgriNerds each received $7,500 to grow their businesses.

More than 8,500 applicants to the University of Washington this fall chose computer science as their first-choice major, with hundreds more transferring from other majors or the state's community college network.

UND researchers will work with others at Iowa State University, ComEd and the software firm Kevala to develop a software tool to protect distributed energy resources such as solar panels, wind turbines and EV chargers.

Robotics have come a long way the past couple decades, and their potential to integrate with artificial intelligence and revolutionize industries could make them increasingly important in higher education.

A startup app called Pipedreamers offers high schoolers an after-school, dual-credit Introduction to Computing course led by Standford professors that covers coding, databases, website design and using AI tools.

A nonprofit contractor at Louisiana State University works closely with the U.S. Department of Defense and other national-security agencies to align the efforts of researchers with the needs of the defense industry.

University of Missouri and Harvard-Smithsonian researchers found that “STEM Career Days” can build an early interest in STEM fields, which could help meet the demand for trained professionals and diversify the field.

Researchers at a private university in Atlanta, Georgia, are using artificial intelligence to make predictions about patient health outcomes concerning numerous diseases, including breast cancer and diabetes.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has earmarked $9 million for new master’s degree programs in West Virginia, Arizona, Florida and South Dakota. The programs will launch in the fall of 2025.

About 600,000 people have completed a Google certificate through Coursera since 2018. Lisa Gevelber, founder of the program and Google’s CMO for the Americas, now sees certificates as essential to filling technology jobs.

Valerie Taylor, director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, says STEM diversity is increasing, but the academic environment must be made welcoming to all.

The Institute for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies, located within the business school at RIC’s Providence campus, hosts degree programs in computer science, cybersecurity and computer information systems.