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2020-2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]


Information Systems (Certificate)



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Technology is transforming today’s organizations and information has become the lifeblood of modern enterprises. Information systems are vastly increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and allowing industry and commerce to provide innovative new services and products. As the need for information and its supply expands, the demand for knowledgeable analysts, integrators, designers, developers and administrators of such systems will continue to grow.

 

The Graduate Certificate in Information Systems requires completion of the following five courses:

SIE 505 Formal Foundations for Information Science (3 credits)

SIE 507 Information Systems Programming (3 credits)

SIE 515 Human Computer Interaction (3 credits)

SIE 525 Information Systems Law (3 credits)

SIE 550 Design of Information Systems (3 credits)

 

All of these required courses should be available to the student through distance technologies at least once within any two year period. Typically, distance students view class sessions over the internet that have been recorded with the on-campus students. They accomplish the same assignments and exams. In some instances, may participate live over the internet.

If one of the courses has been waived due to previous course work or acquired skills, such as the programming course, students will be required to take an appropriate replacement course as specified by the graduate coordinator in consultation with the MSIS graduate faculty.

 

Course Descriptions

Descriptions for courses in the program may be found in the On-line Graduate Catalog oron the school website, https://spatial.umaine.edu/sie-graduate-info/courses

 

Student Eligibility and Admission Criteria

Students desiring to acquire the Graduate Certificate in Information Systems should apply by completing the Graduate Certificate Application online. As part of the application process, official transcripts showing completion of an undergraduate degree and at least one letter of reference are required. Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores are not required to be admitted to a graduate certificate program

The time limit for completion of the Graduate Certificate is the same as that set by the Graduate School for completion of a master’s degree. For the on-line Graduate Certificate application for admission, consult https://umaine.edu/graduate/apply/cert-nd-app-info/

 

Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Graduate Certificate in Information Systems

(45 or fewer credits total)

This combination is for the student most interested in a graduate business degree but who wants some information systems skills and knowledge.

The MBA is a 30-credit graduate degree consisting of all courses of which some are electives.The MBA may be taken on campus or via online.

The Graduate Certificate in Information Systems consists of the fifteen required credits from the MS in Information Systems graduate degree program. The certificate may be taken on campus or via online. Similar to the business certificate, the information systems certificate is a gateway to the full MSIS program.

Some graduate business courses may be accepted on a case-by-case basis as part of the MSIS requirement and thereby reduce the total number of credits required for the combined program.

 

Requirements:

For the master’s degree in business, see MBA Programs at https://umaine.edu/business/mba/

For the certificate in information systems see the Graduate Certificate in Information Systems at http://umaine.edu/msis/curriculum-and-degree-requirements/

 

Spatial and Information Systems Graduate Faculty
 

M. Kate Beard-Tisdale, Ph.D. (Wisconsin, 1988), Professor. Geographic information systems, map generalization, data quality and its visualization, geographic information retrieval, spatio-temporal phenomena and information integration.

Max J. Egenhofer, Ph.D. (Maine, 1989), Professor and Director of School of Computing and Information Science. Spatio-temporal reasoning, user interfaces for geographic information systems, design of spatial database systems, and mobile spatial information appliances.

Nicholas A. Giudice, Ph.D. (Minnesota, 2004), Professor and Director of VEMI Lab. Human computer interaction in real and virtual reality environments, indoor navigation, multimodal spatial cognition, information-access technology and multimodal spatial displays.

Torsten  Hahmann, PhD (Toronto, 2013), Associate Professor. Spatial informatics, spatial ontologies as test bed for research about formal ontologies and their development, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, and logic.

Silvia Nittel, Ph.D. (Zurich, 1994), Associate Professor and Director of Geosensor Networks Lab. Stationary and mobile sensor networks, decentralized in-network data collection algorithms for geosensor networks, management of distributed sensor data streams in real-time.

Harlan J. Onsrud, J.D. (Wisconsin, 1982), Professor and Graduate Coordinator. Legal, ethical, and institutional issues affecting creation and use of databases, ethics driven information systems design, assessment of social and societal impacts of spatial technologies.

Nimesha Ranasinghe, Ph.D. (National University of Singapore (NUS), 2013), Assistant Professor. Research interests include Multisensory Interactive Media, Augmented Reality, and Human-Computer Interaction 

 

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