The Indiana Commission for Higher Education has unanimously approved the creation of a bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in engineering through the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Bloomington.
IU will offer the degrees in intelligent systems engineering beginning with the 2016-17 academic year.
“It will really round out the ability of SoIC and IU to have a full spectrum of computing and science programs that include designing and making physical objects,” said School of Informatics and Computing Dean Bobby Schnabel in an email. “This is crucial both to meet the employment needs of area industry including Crane, Cook, Cummins and many more, and to being able to fully address research opportunities in areas such as robotics, high performance computing, environmental science and engineering, neuroscience and engineering and more.”
The commission voted at its Thursday meeting at Purdue University-Calumet in Hammond, and IU President Michael McRobbie announced the decision during a finance committee meeting with the IU Board of Trustees in Bloomington.
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