ATLAS Academics

Many students with engineering talent feel stifled by the format of conventional programs. Similarly, creatively-minded students often look for ways to augment their skills with the rigor of an engineering degree. Creative Technology and Design offers a mix of engineering and creative coursework, project-based learning and an emphasis on building physical and digital solutions to real-world design challenges.

You choose how to focus your work in the Creative Technology and Design program. Many courses are designed so that if you are into code, fabrication, user experience, data visualization, craft—or wherever your passion lies—you can work on projects that cultivate those talents, along with critical skills like collaboration, user research, strategy, prototyping and iterative design. You build familiarity with a broad range of specialized hardware, software and methodologies, empowering you to succeed in many types of work and adapt to change.

Creative technologists may have one or two specialities, but they speak the language of many disciplines. They can code a video game and fabricate the controller to play it. They can design and manufacture a line of travel bags and code the website to sell them on. They can create a motion capture-based live performance and engineer the sound and lighting for the venue.

Creative Technology and Design alumni are problem solvers, tinkerers, analytical thinkers, artists and visionaries. They lead multi-disciplinary teams or pursue their own ventures in a range of industry settings. Their versatility makes them well positioned to manage complex projects, pursue innovation roles and adapt to changing market conditions. They find success in large corporations, startups, government, NGOs and academia.

Creative Technology and Design alumni work as product designers, software developers, digital manufacturing specialists, UX/UI experts, 3D animators, artists and craftspeople, multimedia technicians, researchers, professors, aerospace engineers, game designers, marketers, entrepreneurs—and much more.