The USC Marshall Faculty of Enterprise and the USC Viterbi Faculty of Engineering are launching a brand new joint undergraduate diploma, Synthetic Intelligence for Enterprise. This revolutionary diploma brings collectively the experience of two of the highest enterprise and engineering faculties within the nation to supply a singular schooling for college students matriculating in Fall 2023.
“We knew there was an incredible want within the market and all through society for college students who’re educated in enterprise, but in addition perceive how AI works, what machine studying means, and are keen to tackle the moral implications of those applied sciences,” stated Ramandeep Randhawa, vice dean for undergraduate packages and professor of information sciences and operations. Excessive demand for expertise with these expertise is obvious from recruiters and senior leaders throughout completely different industries, Randhawa stated.
Kimon Drakopoulos, Robert R. Dockson Assistant Professor in Enterprise Administration and assistant professor of information sciences and operations, is anticipated to be the inaugural director of this system. He shared that timing is crucial, “The present problem for AI is broad adoption. To attain that, in a socially helpful approach, well-rounded and expert leaders are desperately wanted.”
AI knowledgeable, Yolanda Gil who was president of the Affiliation for the Development of Synthetic Intelligence (AAAI), and who’s USC Viterbi’s Director of New Initiatives in AI and Information Science and a Analysis Professor in Laptop Science, will co-direct this system.
“This can be a pioneering and forward-looking interdisciplinary program,” Gil stated, “To our information, it’s the first on the earth of its form at this essential intersection of AI and Enterprise. It dovetails with our college’s emphasis on what we name ‘Engineering+’. We imagine that engineering is an enabling self-discipline. With this program, we’ll empower enterprise and organizational leaders to know the probabilities, in addition to the constraints, of AI applied sciences and to assist them higher perceive the folks they serve, predict developments and enhance decision-making processes. The graduates could have distinctive skills to evaluate the potential of rising concepts in AI and find out how to leverage them in an efficient and accountable method.”
The joint AI for Enterprise diploma is the primary that USC Viterbi will provide with two college names within the diploma, reflecting the true interdisciplinary nature of this system. Will probably be a four-year, 128-unit curriculum with programs at each Marshall and Viterbi. For instance, college students will take each core enterprise programs at Marshall and AI-focused courses at Viterbi with further new integrative programs.
USC Viterbi coursework will cowl machine studying, human interactions, robotics, and programming in Python. As a part of the diploma necessities, college students will even research Safety and Privateness and Ethics for Engineers at USC Viterbi.
The integrative courses to be developed will present a bigger context for making enterprise choices within the AI age. These 4 programs, created inside Marshall particularly for the joint diploma, embrace a semester-long program for first-year college students, in addition to courses in digital transformation, AI and good contracts, know-how technique, and a program that can provide college students real-life experiences within the AI sector.
“Now we have reached a degree the place AI instruments and strategies are extraordinarily correct, however real-world, high-impact purposes are very restricted,” stated Drakopoulos. “The brand new AI for Enterprise diploma is designed to mould leaders who fill this void—impact-driven professionals who can be uncovered to a singular mix of enterprise, technical, ethics and management programs and who will be capable to pose the proper questions in addition to generate the proper solutions. We can be one in every of solely a handful of universities across the globe the place college students have the chance to develop their technical, enterprise and management expertise to pursue careers in one of many fastest-growing components of the tech sector.”
“By providing distinctive partnerships with different forward-focused USC faculties, Marshall is growing its worth, breaking down silos and unlocking true collaborative and multidisciplinary studying. This diploma finest exemplifies our drive at Marshall to innovate and to construct cutting-edge curriculum,” stated Randhawa.
The brand new diploma in AI for Enterprise is one in every of a collection of interdisciplinary knowledge science diploma packages supplied by USC Viterbi. Certainly, the college has joint knowledge science packages with the Annenberg Faculty for Communication and Journalism, the Worth Faculty for Public Coverage, and the Dornsife School of Letters, Arts and Sciences. The brand new diploma will even complement an current Viterbi and Marshall mixed undergraduate diploma on Laptop Science and Enterprise Administration.
Printed on September ninth, 2022
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