Information Technology

The college intends to augment coverage of IT in its curricula and to use the advanced technologies in Cornell Hall to enhance instruction, in order that graduates, faculty members, and staff members are known for their IT expertise.

Amy Rold (BS BA ’00, MBA ’03) says her IT learning experiences in the Crosby MBA Program gave her a head start in a successful career. “The management information systems emphasis is what helped me get a position with Deloitte in IT Audit. I was able to start working with a general base of IT knowledge and learned the auditing concepts quickly,” Rold says. A recipient of a “30 under 30” award from the St. Louis Business Journal, Rold recently left Deloitte to become an internal audit manager at Express Scripts Inc.

This spring, Vairam Arunachalam, PricewaterhouseCoopers/Joseph A. Silvoso Professor of Accountancy, received an Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award from MU. With the help of several grants and collaborations with software companies, Arunachalam has taught his students a number of applications relevant to the field of accounting, ranging from enterprise resource planning to data mining.

In a specific example of IT in the classroom, Doug Moesel, associate professor of management, developed a course with Cerner Corporation and a professor from Kansas State University that uses videoconferencing technology. This fall, undergraduate students from MU and Kansas State University have weekly class sessions with  Cerner’s training managers and consultants, using both direct videoconferencing and Live Meeting software. At the end of the semester, student teams will make presentations to Cerner’s management describing their IT solutions to problems that hospitals face in delivering health care efficiently and effectively to their patients.

“Videoconferencing enables students to benefit from the expertise of real consultants and get access to feedback on their day-to-day experiences with clients in hospitals and clinics around the world,” Moesel says. “Technologies like this give our students exposure to a wider range of expertise and access to more executives.”

Last Edited: 8/1/2007