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Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

  • From: Marius Strom
  • Date: Wed May 22 17:21:17 2002 
Also sounds a lot like Texas A&M University's Telecommunications
Engineering Technology degree. (Yes, it says Engineering Technology.
No, it's not a two year associates degree.)  It's currently rich on
voice communications networks, but is picking up tremendously on data
communications.

http://etidweb.tamu.edu/telecomm/tel_index.html

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Pistone, Mike wrote:

> 
> Not to toot the horn of my Alma Mater too much, but Ohio University's
> Communication Systems Management program (www.csm.ohiou.edu) is also along
> the lines of a network engineering degree.  It also focus on other aspects
> of the industry (regulation, comm theory, security, etc) but they all sort
> of flow together.  They were just getting into more hands on networking labs
> when I graduated, I am sure they have greatly improved since then.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Kristoff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:52 PM
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 May 2002 16:40:27 -0400
> "Kristian P. Jackson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > network engineers, just as a bunch of network engineers are no more
> > qualified to program. Perhaps a bachelors in network engineering is in
> > order?
> 
> We actually have that - or something close to it.  We are slowly
> building a bigger networking lab with router-ish stuff for students to
> learn from.  In fact, I'll be handing off full BGP table for them to see
> and play with in the lab.  If you want to help us educate, we'll gladly
> accept any donations, particularly gear, we can get.  :-)
> 
> http://www.cs.depaul.edu/programs/2002/BachelorNT2002.asp
> http://ipdweb.cs.depaul.edu/programs/lan/index.html
> http://condor.depaul.edu/~jkristof/tdc375/
> http://condor.depaul.edu/~jkristof/2001Spr365/
> 
> John

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