Information Technology Degrees

University Dean and Professor

Over his 20+ year’s industrial professional career, Dr. Qu has served at various executive level of product R&D and IT management positions at several multinational corporations. He has led his multinational engineering teams successfully developed several the world first very large real time commercial software systems and technologies. Dr. Qu joined CTU in 2008. From 2012 to 2014, Dr. Qu has led CTU student teams participated in the yearly “National Security Innovation Competition”.

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Program Director

Dr. Richard Cai is CTU’s University Program Director for College of Computer Science & Technology. In this role, Dr. Cai supervises curriculum design, development and revision for all the degree programs offered in the college. He also plays a key role in the program assessment and accreditation.

Prior to joining CTU in 2015 Dr. Cai served as full professor for the School of Information Technology at American InterContinental University, where he also acted as a Program Chair and Dean. As Dean for the School of Information Technology he led bachelor’s and master’s-level IT degree programs while also working closely with program leaders across all departments.

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Program Chair - Online

Dr. Janet Durgin has over 12 years’ experience as a Systems Engineering Manager for a large U.S. defense contractor, along with 7 years’ experience in academics serving as Program Chair and graduate instructor in the business, information technology and project management programs. As an IT Project Manager and Systems Engineer, Janet managed technical teams that built large information systems in the domain areas of Information Security, Production Operations, Engineering, Security, Supply Chain, and Logistics.

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Passionate about software development, Dr. Diesch has been working in the field for more than 25 years and has authored well-known software such as TurboCAD. He is currently working in the areas of ASP.NET web development and data analysis.

Experience:

• Past Dean of the College of Business and Technology
• Has taught over 1000 online courses
• Spent 5 years as a professor at Iowa State University

Education:

• Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering

As the VP of IT Risk Management for Career Education Corporation (CTU’s parent company), Mr. Ramakrishnan is responsible for leading and managing the strategy and operations for IT Security Policy and Operations, IT Risk Management, Logical Access, IT Compliance and Change Control, and Business Continuity.

Experience:

• Senior information security and risk management professional
• Over fifteen years’ experience in risk management, information security, compliance, regulations and IT systems management experience
• Former Director, IT Risk Management at ULTA Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance Inc.

Education:

• MBA