{"id":21355,"date":"2020-11-25T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=21355"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:42","slug":"engineering-undergrads-prep-for-a-modern-workforce-with-expanded-data-analytics-courses-and-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/25\/engineering-undergrads-prep-for-a-modern-workforce-with-expanded-data-analytics-courses-and-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering undergrads prep for a modern workforce with expanded data analytics courses and support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s.jpg\" alt=\"many graphs and magnifying glass on dark blue background\" class=\"wp-image-5237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s.jpg 450w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s-125x83.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption>(Copyright: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.123rf.com\/profile_tadamichi\">tadamichi \/ 123RF Stock Photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018,&nbsp;U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE)&nbsp;faculty set their sights on fully-preparing students for the modern workforce and advanced studies by incorporating computing and data analytics into many existing courses, creating a new advanced analytics course for seniors, and implementing a new help desk to support students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the main changes was to emphasize R and Python in key courses with computational or data analytics components. Previously, many different programming languages were used in U-M IOE classes, and some of them were no longer as popular in industry and academia as they once were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy introducing some uniformity, students will have an easier time navigating data analytics and computational tasks across the curriculum, and with these particular tools they will have better control of some key technologies that are commonly sought by employers,\u201d explained <strong>Eunshin Byon<\/strong>, U-M IOE associate professor and leader of the faculty group implementing the changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018,&nbsp;U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE)&nbsp;faculty set their sights on fully-preparing students for the modern workforce and advanced studies by incorporating computing and data analytics into many existing courses, creating a new advanced analytics course for seniors, and implementing a new help desk to support students. One of the main changes was to emphasize R and Python\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/25\/engineering-undergrads-prep-for-a-modern-workforce-with-expanded-data-analytics-courses-and-support\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[131,290,43,96,588],"class_list":["post-21355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-analytics","tag-coe","tag-data","tag-students","tag-teaching"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s.jpg",450,299,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s.jpg",450,299,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s.jpg",450,299,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s.jpg",450,299,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s.jpg",450,299,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s.jpg",450,299,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s.jpg",450,299,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/41152896_s.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"In 2018,&nbsp;U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE)&nbsp;faculty set their sights on fully-preparing students for the modern workforce and advanced studies by incorporating computing and data analytics into many existing courses, creating a new advanced analytics course for seniors, and implementing a new help desk to support students. 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