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Education
To meet your career aspirations, different degrees of
educational specialization may be needed. Sometimes
you might need a singular focused training to gain a
particular skill and other times you might need a series of
interrelated course work. Through the links below, you
will find a full range of educational offerings in the
technology arena as well as definitions which we hope will
illuminate and simplify the path to your future.
The Mid Hudson Technology Council:
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http://www.dcedc.com/mhtc/dcedc - To
enhance the Mid-Hudson region’s educational capabilities
in the area of technology to
attract new students, to support continuing education &
workforce development. |
Definition and terms:
| Credit
- Official certification that a student has successfully
completed a department of education accredited course of
study. |
| Credit Free -
Certification or recognition that a student has
successfully completed a course of study. |
| Certificate
- A document issued to a person completing a course of
study not leading to a diploma. |
| Associate Degree -
A two-year degree granted by an accredited college on
successful completion of generally sixty to seventy-two
credits of planned undergraduate study. |
| Baccalaureate Degree
- A four-year degree granted by an accredited college on
successful completion of approximately one-hundred-thirty
credits of planned undergraduate study. |
| Graduate
Degree -
A degree granted by an accredited college of, intended
for, or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree. |
| Course: A unit of
a curriculum: took an introductory course in
chemistry; passed her calculus course. |
| Program: A
complete set of courses of prescribed studies constituting
a curriculum: a four-year course in engineering. |
The links below lead you to information about
courses and programs available at regional institutions of
higher education. Information is supplied on credit
and credit-free courses and programs.
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Manufacturing
--- An industry in which electro-mechanical
power and machinery are employed. |
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Computers
--- A programmable electronic machine that
performs high-speed mathematical or logical operations or that assembles,
stores, correlates, or otherwise processes information.
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Hardware
--- The mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and
electrical, devices making up a computer system. |
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Software Applications
--- The programs that control the functioning
of the hardware, direct its operation, and provide a user interface. |
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Programming
--- Creating a sequence of instructions to
enable the computer to do something. |
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Networking
--- Interconnecting a system of computers by
telephone wires or other means in order to share information. |
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Information
Systems ---
An organized and coordinated method or procedure for processing,
storing, or transmitting data. |
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Engineering
--- The application of scientific and
mathematical principles focusing on the design, research, testing, and
development of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and
systems serving society. |
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Technology
--- The application of scientific principles
focusing on the manufacturing, testing, selling, and operating the structures,
machines, processes, and systems serving society. |
Dutchess
Community College ¤ 53 Pendell Road ¤ Poughkeepsie, NY
12601 ¤ 845-431-8000
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