The major goal of the program is to produce graduates who are universally accepted as being able to provide appropriate solutions to digital technology related problems, being experienced by organizations operating within Jamaica and the Caribbean.
Potential users of the expertise of the graduates must be totally assured of the following:
1. Graduates will possess high levels of intellectual capabilities, resulting in their being sufficiently flexible to creatively and successfully tackle the most unusual and challenging problems, in addition to normal routine situations
2. The curriculum will cover the core principles in sufficient detail and rigor to ensure that graduates are able to independently research advanced and / or new topics in digital technology to achieve scholastic or engineering goals.
3. The curriculum covers commercially significant applications of digital technology, which are commonly encountered in the Caribbean Region to the extent that graduates are able to:
Analyze performance requirements and specify the
technical characteristics and features of components
and systems necessary to meet given performance
objectives.
ii) Evaluate technical proposals for systems employing
digital technology and recommend appropriate
choices and actions.
Manage the acquisition and implementation of integrated systems which use digital technology.
The program will be offered on a part time basis and will last for two years.
There will be an evening class conducted on one night during the week and an all day class and labs on Saturday. There will also be two full time sessions during Summer of each of the two years.
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