Virginia Tech marks a milestone and raises final beam on an Innovation Campus building.
Stepping over rough gravel near the Potomac with a giant crane swinging overhead, Ken Smith, the chief operating officer of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus, said, “You’re actually inside the building right now — we’re in the two-story atrium space.”It took a little imagination, but then again, Smith was leading a construction tour at the symbolic midpoint of a project poised to transform technology education in the region.
And the university is hoping its graduates are more diverse than computer science engineers have traditionally been: Through partnerships with K-12 schools and other efforts, it hopes to attract more women and underrepresented minorities, Lance Collins, executive director of the Innovation Campus, said in anAlready, nearly 300 graduate students are taking classes in Falls Church.
will have exposure to real-world challenges and will develop technical knowledge and professional skills, he said, such as leadership of a team, project management and communication.
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