Several US and foreign universities are teaming to develop an engineering and applied-sciences campus in New York. They hope that this center will rival high-tech hubs in Boston and Silicon Valley. I was interested to learn that IT (information technology) leads the city's list of the center's disciplines. I shouldn't have been surprised; over the past decade, many colleges have been created with the term "IT" in their names. But what is IT, and why is it growing in importance? What is its relationship to engineering and to mechatronics? Depending on whom you ask, you will get a variety of answers.
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