Each cohort will be sponsored by a separate local company. Working with the technical faculty, a sponsoring company representative will help develop an overall marketing assignment that the cohort will focus on as well as supply data that may be useful in developing a real-life business experience. This overall project inform some of the assignments in each of the technical courses culminating in a capstone experience in which students prepare a comprehensive summary of what they have learned and present their findings to the client company and the faculty. Students in the program take classes in the same schedule as a cohort. Distance learning, Web-based, etc. are options for those students who need to complete prerequisites or deficiencies in their skills.
Sessions are contiguous.
Breaks are organized around traditional holidays, to minimize down-time between classes. Students enrollment is handled automatically. The texts and the syllabus for the cohort s next pair of classes are distributed to them the last week of the prior class.