Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
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College of Information Sciences and Technology |
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| Established | 1999 |
| Dean | Henry C. Foley |
| Location | University Park, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Website | www.ist.psu.edu |
As of 2007, the IST as a major is offered at 19 campuses with 142 faculty state wide and 42 faculty at the University Park main campus. Throughout the state there are 1,891 students enrolled in IST plus an additional 12,000+ online IST students. There are 5 associate degree options and 2 bachelor’s degree majors. Eighty-nine students are currently studying IST as a graduate school option. The cumulative placement percentage for Bachelor’s Degree students upon graduation between the years 2003-2006 was 94% and the 2006 average starting salary was $56,250. IST’s overall research funding is in excess of $36 million dollars.
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[edit] History
The College of Information Science and Technology was created in 1997. Dean of the Graduate School, Rod Erickson, was appointed by Penn State President Graham Spanier to lead a fifteen member strategic planning group. One year later, the planning group had produced plans for the School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST).
The plan was unanimously approved by Penn State’s Board of Trustees. An administrative team led by Dean James Thomas of the Smeal College of Business created a curriculum for the IST program and admitted the first students into the IST program for the Fall 1999 semester.
Immediately upon opening, the school began its expansion. Research groups developed, online courses were integrated, the number of faculty expanded, graduate programs were established, but most importantly, the state-of-the-art building had been planned and construction was underway. In May 2003, Penn State’s first full graduating IST class was given baccalaureate degrees.
[edit] Building
The Information Sciences and Technology Building is located on the west campus of the Pennsylvania State University’s University Park campus. The building is home to the College of Information Sciences and Technology and the Computer Science and Engineering department.
It was formally opened in 2004. The 199,000 square foot building was designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects in New York, New York and Perfido Weiskopf Architects in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The architecture was inspired by the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The construction of the building cost $58.8 million dollars to complete.
The largest classroom in the building is the Cybertorium. The Cybertorium seats up to 150 people in a movie theater style venue, which features a high tech sound system and large projection screen for presenters to use.
[edit] Degrees / Programs of Study
The College of Information Sciences and Technology offers undergraduate and graduate degrees. Students have several degree options within each major. The College of Information Sciences and Technology offers an Information Sciences and Technology minor and nine joint minors with other departments at the university. The college also offers three sets of courses known as theme tracks to further supplement an undergraduate student’s education.
Associate’s Degrees
Information Sciences and Technology
Baccalaureate Option
Generalized Business Option
Software Option
Web Administration Option
Networking Option
Data/Information Option
Manufacturing Option
Telecommunications Option
Individualized Option
Bachelor’s Degrees
Information Sciences and Technology
Design and Development Option
Integration and Application Option
People, Organizations and Society Option
Security and Risk Analysis
Intelligence and Analysis Option
Information and Cyber Security Option
Social Factors and Risk Option
Graduate Degrees
Master’s in Information Science and Technology
Ph.D in Information Science and Technology
Minors
Information Science and Technology
IST for Communication Arts and Sciences
IST for Earth and Mineral Sciences
IST in Health Policy Administration
IST for Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management
IST for Industrial Engineering
IST for Labor and Industrial Relations
IST for Mathematics
IST for Telecommunications
Supply Chain and IST
Theme Tracks
Database Systems
Information Technology Consulting
Information Assurance
[edit] Student Groups
The college of IST provides a wide range of student run groups open to IST students. Those groups are as follows:
Magazine of IST (MIST)
Women of IST (WIST)
IST Information Assurance Club
IST Student Government
IST Interest House
Computer Network Club
IST Diversity Network (D-Net)
Student e-Portfolio Program
Volunteers In IST Association (VISTA)
[edit] Research
BPC-DP: A Developmental Community for Recruiting and Maintaining Women in CISE Education
NSF DHB Enhancing
Explanations of Software-Intensive Systems: A Foundation for Design Science
Knowledge Management Reachback Program
ACM Mentis
Planning Visits for US-Singapore Collaborative Research on Next Generation Bibliographic Search Engine
Center for Multi-Source Information Fusion
Real World Behavioral Modeling with the Herbal High-Level Language
Fantasy Sports Games as Cultures for Information Learning
Cyberinfrastructure and research facilities: developing collaboratory tools to facilitate multi-disciplinary multi scale research in enviromental molecular sciences
USMC Sense Respond Architecture Evaluation
REU CRI: Collaborative: Next Generation Cite/Seer
NSF CRI Collaboration
Sharing Multiple Views to Build and Verify Common Ground
Student Research Associate Program
SGER: Integrated Criminal Justice
IDLP: International Collaboration to Advance User-Oriented Technologies for Managing and Distributing Images in Digital Libraries
Identification and Validation of Cross Domain Monitoring Technologies
TRAILS Project Partnership
CAREER: Machine Learning Based Intelligent Image Annotation and Retrieval
Capacity Building in Information Assurance at Penn State University
ITR: Collaborative Research: Dependable End-User Software
Mutually Leveraging Information Technology Literacy and Community Networks
Improving the Representation of Human Variability with Computer Generated Forces
CAREER: Broadening the Participation of Historically Underserved Groups in the Information Society
Design, Building and Testing Behavior Moderators with the ACT-R Cognitive Architecture
An Infrastructure for Innovation in Information Computing
IBM Eclipse Award
Adaptive Team-Based Asistant Agents for Managing Dynamic Information Requirements in the Battlespace
