CIS120 – Walter Morales Assignment 6 - 50 pts

Due Date: announced in class / e-mail

– How are computers used in your field for work, or in your future profession?

Here is some interesting data: 

Education is essential in getting a high-paying job. In fact, for all but 1 of the 50 highest paying occupations, a college degree or higher is the most significant source of education or training. Air traffic controllers is the only occupation of the 50 highest paying for which this is not the case.

Employment in professional, scientific, and technical services will grow by 27.8 percent and add 1.9 million new jobs by 2012. Employment in computer systems design and related services will grow by 54.6 percent and add more than one-third of all new jobs in professional, scientific, and technical services. Employment growth will be driven by the increasing reliance of businesses on information technology and the continuing importance of maintaining system and network security. Management, scientific, and technical consulting services also will grow very rapidly, by 55.4 percent, spurred by the increased use of new technology and computer software and the growing complexity of business.

Information. Employment in the information supersector is expected to increase by 18.5 percent, adding 632,000 jobs by 2012. Information contains some of the fast-growing computer-related industries such as software publishers; Internet publishing and broadcasting; and Internet service providers, Web search portals, and data processing services. Employment in these industries is expected to grow by 67.9 percent, 41.1 percent, and 48.2 percent, respectively. The information supersector also includes telecommunications, broadcasting, and newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers. Increased demand for residential and business land-line and wireless services, cable service, high-speed Internet connections, and software will fuel job growth among these industries.

Among all occupations in the economy, computer and healthcare occupations are expected to grow the fastest over the projection period (Chart 7). In fact, healthcare occupations make up 10 of the 20 fastest growing occupations, while computer occupations account for 5 out of the 20 fastest growing occupations in the economy. In addition to high growth rates, these 15 computer and healthcare occupations combined will add more than 1.5 million new jobs. High growth rates among computer and healthcare occupations reflect projected rapid growth in the computer and data processing and health services industries.

Your assignment:

Write a 2 page paper, that will explore your field of studies and how computer technology is used or will be used in your field.

For instance, let’s says that you are studying to be an airplane mechanic. Your task will be to do a search on your favorite search engine such as google or another search engine where you will find articles related on how computers are used in your field.

Here is an example of a search in this particular field (aircraft maintenance) :

And my chosen article:

PDF] A Quiet Revolution in Aircraft Maintenance - Military Information ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... mobile and deployable applies just as much to aircraft maintenance ...
laptop computers. Twelve AMC bases have fielded wireless technology on their ...
www.tactronics.com/media/ MilitaryAerospaceTech_Dec2003.pdf –

TURN IN:

You would read this article and SUMMARIZE its contents, please remember that this is not a copy/paste assignment. You may use multiple articles that refer to the same topic and summarize those into a 2 page typed report.

The format will be similar to this one

Any questions about this assignment let me know.

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