Industrial Technology Department Goals

Long Range

Encourage excellence in instruction and promote scholarship by emphasizing the importance of a commitment to life-long learning.
Continually evaluate and revise course content to meet current industry needs.
Strengthen Industrial Technology student enrollment and retention.
Maintain and improve collaborative relationships with industry partners and community.
Prepare students for gainful employment by developing their communication, problem-solving, and technical skills.
Target and develop distance learning and online opportunities for students.
Provide meaningful development opportunities for faculty.

Focus on and develop outcome-based learning activities.
Reorganize available space to more efficiently facilitate learning.
Improve knowledge of the program in the local high schools.
Update competencies to reflect new software packages.
Develop online and hybrid course options for lecture and lab activities.
Inclusion of a capstone course in each of the concentrations of the Industrial Technology program
Standardize and focus competencies for Industrial Technology curriculum.
Continue to utilize NAIT standards and affiliation for program improvement.
Implement the Quality Sciences concentration.