教师问&A:凯文·本克 & 迈克·哈里森
Behnke, Harrison are Coordinators/Professors for the Information Technologies Program
Department Chair Meg Prescott worked as a web developer and data base administrator before joining Great Bay, where she has won the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the Campus Compact’s Good Steward award. Her degrees are in math and science, and she has numerous information technology certificates.
在加入Great Bay之前， Program Coordinator/Professor Kevin Behnke worked in the industry as a technical trainer and specialist, support engineer and as a courseware and program developer. On the academic side, he holds degrees in business administration and business education.
Michael Harrison, who shares Program Coordinator duties as an Associate Professor, racked up experience as a computer tech in the U.S. Navy and product engineer at GTE, Wang Labs, Cabletron, and Enterasys. He was a regular participant in IEEE Computer Society Conferences and published in trade journals. 他的学位是电气工程.
The adjunct faculty bring diverse real-world experience with individual specialties, as well.
The IST department offers an associate in science degree, with coursework in computer hardware repair, 计算机网络, 网络安全和网络管理. It offers related degrees in cyber security and computer information systems.
Interest is booming, with abundant jobs and interesting career opportunities. 行业薪酬不错，而且还在不断提高, 平均工资为71美元,网络专家为000美元，104美元,网络安全专家的薪水是5万英镑.
本克和哈里森, who both are Cisco Certified Network Associates, recently spoke via Zoom about the IST program at Great Bay.
Why is there so much interest in this field right now?
凯文: Because there are so many jobs related to computers. There is nothing not touched by this field. 但是兴趣是有趣的. What we teach is sometimes now what students come to learn about. Most people will say, ‘You work with computers.’ You are not wrong when you say that, but that is not what I do. Computers happen to an end device, so I have to understand end devices. 但我的工作重点是如何建立人际关系. How are we talking to each other right now? 这不是魔法. There is a defined process that happens in the background. 这就是我所关注的.
Students come in with a lot of knowledge they don’t realize they have. A lot of them have been playing with these tools since kindergarten. What is one of the first things you learn in grammar school? 键盘，输入. 这对他们来说是很自然的. Mike and I take the knowledge they lack – how it all really works – and we fill in the blanks.
大海湾项目的独特之处?
迈克: 我们的ala手推车方法是独一无二的. We are not locked into specific roles here. My hobby and my background are micro controllers, so I specialize in that. We can offer that kind of ala cart menu because we have diverse chefs mixing the soup.
Where is the growth in the program coming from?
凯文: We are seeing a lot of interest in cyber security, and that makes sense. Not a week goes by when you don’t read that we have been hacked by somebody. There is tremendous demand for and tremendous interest in cyber right now. The average salary for somebody with a solid five years of experience in cyber is somewhere in the $75,000 to $100,000 - +范围, 这取决于你住在哪里. 这是一个非常适合生活的工资.
迈克: 这也是一个相对较新的领域. Cyber security and the study of cyber security has been around for less than 10 years, max. 大海湾项目已经实施了四年.
You both seem excited and inspired by your work.
凯文: I am one of those people who actually loves his job. The great thing about working with this population, you don’t know who the next Bill Gates are Mark Zuckerberg is going to be. 他们没有做任何魔法. Mark Zuckerberg wrote an application called Facebook so he could communicate across the college campus, 然后爆炸了. 下一个比尔·盖茨或马克·扎克伯格? 你就是不知道.
迈克: 所以，是的，这很令人兴奋. We have a lot of knowledge and a lot of experience, and it’s fun to share it with students who are eager to learn.
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“Not a week goes by when you don’t read that we have been hacked by somebody. There is tremendous demand for and tremendous interest in cyber right now,” says IST Program Coordinator Kevin Behnke.
小班授课, 灵活的时间表, and faculty members who teach with real-world experience, Great Bay is the best place to start your IT training. Great Bay offers certificates and two-year degree, and many students continue their education through articulation agreements with four-year colleges.
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