Date: Thursday, February 14, 2013
Location: Wolfson Campus, ETCOTA Conference room
Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Facilitator: Jerry Lancio
President
Community College Consulting Group, Inc.
MDC Resource: Dr. Diane King
Director, Curriculum Development
Miami Dade College
School of Engineering + Technology
In attendance:
Sergio Paredes VP/CIO Community Bank of FL
James E. Osteen Executive Director South Florida Digital Alliance
Rob Shuman Director IT Operations Florida Power and Light
Pete Man Information Systems Manager Miami-Dade Expressway Authority
Shawn Williams President ATCG Inc.
Djuradj Babic Chair, Technology, Hialeah Campus Miami Dade College
Heather Belmont Dean, School of Science Miami Dade College
Mr. Lancio facilitated an industry focus group through a DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) to determine what tasks, skills, and knowledge local employers deem necessary for a graduate of a baccalaureate degree in Information Systems Technology.
The group first developed a focus statement that defines what an IST professional does: An Information Systems Technology professional designs, plans, and manages infrastructure and resources involved in information systems including analysis, storage, networking, and security.
It then proceeded to list major areas of responsibility for the defined job function, and, within each area of responsibility, what tasks that individual is expected to perform, and what additional knowledge and skills are required to perform the job function. The report is attached here. The results of this focus group were provided to a team of Miami Dade College faculty who then organized the tasks into courses. The faculty then proceeded to develop competencies for those courses, which include the tasks, knowledge, and skills identified by the industry focus group.
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