Program Accreditation
The Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Technology is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Computer Engineering Technology.
Program Mission
The mission of the Computer Engineering Technology (CET) bachelor's degree program in the Computer Systems Engineering Technology (CSET) Department at Oregon Institute of Technology is to provide an excellent education incorporating industry-relevant, applied laboratory based design and analysis to our students. The program is to serve a constituency consisting of its alumni, employers in the high-technology industry, and the members of our Industrial Advisory Board. Major components of the CET program's mission in the CSET Department are to:
- Educate computer engineering technology students to meet current and future industrial challenges.
- Promote a sense of scholarship, leadership, and professional service among our graduates.
- Enable our students to create, develop, and disseminate knowledge for the applied engineering environment.
- Expose our students to cross-disciplinary educational programs.
- Provide high tech industry employers with graduates in the computer engineering technology profession, a profession which is increasingly being driven by advances in technology.
Program Educational Objectives
The Program Educational Objectives reflect those attributes a student of the CET program will practice in professional endeavors.
- Demonstrate technical competency through success in computer engineering technology positions and/or pursuit of engineering or engineering technology graduate studies if desired.
- Demonstrate competencies in communication and teamwork skills by assuming increasing levels of responsibility and leadership or managerial roles.
- Develop professionally, pursue continued learning, and practice computer engineering technology in a responsible and ethical manner.
Program Student Outcomes
Graduates of the CET bachelor's degree program are expected to be able to demonstrate:
- An ability to apply knowledge, techniques, skills, and modern tools of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology to solve broadly-defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline.
- An ability to design systems, components, or processes meeting specified needs for broadly-defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline.
- An ability to apply written, oral, and graphical communication in broadly-defined technical and non-technical environments; and an ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature.
- An ability to conduct standard tests, measurements, and experiments and to analyze and interpret the results to improve processes.
- An ability to function effectively as a member as well as a leader on technical teams.
Summary of Student Outcomes
The Computer Engineering Technology faculty formally assess the student outcomes which is summarized in the annual program assessment report linked below. Additional details can be found in department assessment records.
Program Curriculum Map
The curriculum map for the Computer Engineering Technology program can be found on the catalog web page on the Oregon Tech website, www.oit.edu/catalog.
Annual Program Assessment Reports
Enrollment and Graduate Data
Contact
Casey Santosh is Director of the Center of Excellence in Applied Computing, Professor of AI, and Chair of the Departments of Computer Systems Engineering Technology and Applied Computing & Geomatics (interim) at Oregon Institute of Technology. Previously, he served at the University of South Dakota as Chair of Computer Science (2020–2026), Graduate Program Director (2017–2024), and Professor of AI (2015-2026) as well as Founding Director of AI Research (2015–2026), following more than four years of research appointments at the National Institutes of Health and LORIA Research Center, France. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from INRIA Nancy Grand Est/Université de Lorraine, France. He has secured over $10 million in funding from SDBOR, NSF, ED, and DOW, delivered more than 100 international keynotes, including a TEDx talk, and authored 13 books and over 280 peer-reviewed publications, including articles in IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TMI, and IEEE TAI. He has founded and chaired over a dozen AI conferences (IEEE), served as a panelist for NSF and Mitacs, and held editorial roles for leading journals, including IEEE TAI and IEEE TMI. He has contributed to NIST's AI Standards and Innovation group and the U.S. Department of State's U.S. Speaker Program on AI education. More information: www.kc-santosh.org
