The demands of the business world are changing. Today's students of computer science and
engineering need different skills. In some cases, broader, to include up-to-date knowledge about
services and management. In other cases, more specific, to include competencies in the mainframe
technologies used by the world's largest corporations. Thanks to Dr. Viniotis, the students at
North Carolina State University (NCSU) College of Engineering will be well prepared.
Dr. Viniotis was one of the architects of the school's ground-breaking Service Science,
Management and Engineering (SSME) program. SSME is a new multi-disciplinary research and
academic effort that integrates aspects of computer science, operations research, engineering,
and business strategy with social, cognitive, and legal sciences.
Dr. Viniotis is also leading the effort at NCSU to present a series of IBM System z mainframe
and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) courses.
To benefit the collegial community, he designed these courses so that they can easily be repeated by other universities using
a flexible "1+3 special topics/special projects" approach: students first
take a 1-credit special topics course in the fall, followed by a 3-credit hands-on special
projects course in the spring.
Results:
Dr. Viniotis leadership in these fields has had a ripple effect in academia. He has been a
spokesperson for the SSME discipline, presenting the curricula at numerous scholarly conferences
and consulting with other schools who want to begin similar programs.
Benefits:
Many companies, including IBM, are anxious to recruit the SSME graduates into the quickly expanding
services sector. And because The System z and SOA courses address an acutely critical shortage
of mainframe skills, these students will be in high demand when they graduate and apply for jobs.
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