New Undergrad Program Links Students to Employers
Oct. 10, 2013 – University of Utah’s College of Engineering received approval this week for its new undergraduate certificate program in data center engineering. The new program is designed to prepare students to work in data centers run by government agencies and companies such as eBay, Oracle and Goldman Sachs.
A major challenge for data centers is handling massive amounts of data and storing this information in large-scale facilities. Engineers need to understand how to balance power and temperature regulation with highly concentrated computing infrastructure when operating or managing these facilities.
“This program will introduce a new interdisciplinary certificate that will give students at the University of Utah a major competitive advantage in the job market for the growing industry of large-scale data centers,” says Valerio Pascucci, professor of computer science at the U and coordinator of the new program. “Data centers involve unprecedented concentrations of high-performance computing resources that cannot be managed successfully without combining state-of-the-art computer science practices with modern green technologies to enable truly sustainable operations.”
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