For your advisees who are considering changing majors, Industrial Technology is often an option worth exploration.
Industrial technologists are responsible for many highly technical areas of manufacturing.
They design safer, more efficient workplaces, manage production teams to improve the quality of manufactured goods, and increase the profitability of business operations. Specialists in this field are in great demand in the high-tech manufacturing workplace. Iowa State's program in industrial technology provides students with opportunities to work with real-world equipment to solve technical problems in product design and manufacturing. Industrial technology includes technical courses in CADD, electronics, metals, polymers, safety, and quality to prepare students for positions in technical management. It prepares them to integrate technologies to solve problems, to design for manufacturability, to develop and manage project teams, to establish criteria for quality control, and to understand production economics.