Cogswell Polytechnical College

Knowing how to create new opportunities is important when working for an innovative organization or in launching your own company. Whether your interest is digital media or another field, you'll learn the strategies for business success.

Provides students with a full-immersion, hands-on education to learn the concepts of creating new ventures and innovation in a start-up or innovative company environment. Students will experience how to plan, launch and grow a leading edge project or venture through our product labs and incubator. The program is designed to equip students with the knowledge, know how and networks, combined with integrated hands-on practice to create and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities, find people and financial resources to launch and grow a venture, lead a venture through various stages of growth, and the factors most likely to influence the entrepreneur's success.

Computer Engineering combines a necessary balance between hardware and software. Produces professionals who design, develop, and test next generation computer hardware. Graduates will have skills in circuit design, test, and verification and will be exposed to the latest advances in VLSI and MEMS technologies. Students can specialize in:

• VLSI and Solid State
• Communication Systems
• Robotics and Embedded System
• Sensors, Actuators, and Control Systems

The Digital Audio Technology (DAT) program offers students who seek professional careers in the audio industry the opportunity to focus on audio production (music production, sound effects design and other forms of audio asset creation) or audio engineering (the design and manufacture of audio software). The DAT program offers students an integrated curriculum that includes music theory and composition, studio recording, sound synthesis, soundtrack production, audio mastering and audio software development. DAT students learn a wide range of concepts fundamental to digital audio and engage in numerous hands-on assignments and projects. It culminates in a year-long senior portfolio project.

The Digital Arts Department coursework spans many multi-disciplinary activities. It includes traditional drawing, illustration, sculpture, graphic design, 3D modeling, animation, video, sound design, story development, storyboarding, storytelling, and media integration. The programs offer technical and applied courses utilized by companies embracing integrated media and are structured to allow students to refine their work and skills in a focused area of interest. The DA programs offer areas of concentration in 3D Animation, Modeling, Game Development, and Entertainment Design.

DAE combines a necessary balance between software and digital arts. Produces professionals who are capable of working at the intersection of engineering and digital art. Graduates will have skills in programming languages, tools programming, scripting languages, and software development; concept design, modeling, texturing, rigging, and animation; and computer simulation, visualization and game engine programming.