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Texas School Offers First-of-a-Kind Data Center Engineering Degree
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Southern Methodist University (SMU) says it will offer a first-of-its-kind graduate degree in data center engineering, with classes starting this fall. Hewlett-Packard approached the Dallas-based university about developing a program two years ago, and Compass Datacenters and other industry players also helped put it together. The program includes five core courses covering data centers broadly, and draws on SMU's various departments to enable students to specialize in areas such as facilities and infrastructure, data analytics, virtualization, and cloud computing.
Other programs may emphasize one or more but not all of these areas, says Edward Forest, program director of SMU's Lyle School of Engineering. "What you don't get is the broadness of the core classes and the ability to combine that with specialties from other departments," Forest says.
SMU hopes to enroll about 20 students in the first year. The U.S. Department of Labor expects the number of people working in data center operations will increase to 6 million in 2018, up from 4 million currently. The Masters of Science in Datacenter Systems Engineering addresses "a long unfulfilled need in the data center industry," says Compass Datacenters CEO Chris Crosby.
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