Starting fall 2025, the McClure School will be offering a new undergraduate degree in Cybersecurity Operations.
The J. Warren McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in information and telecommunication systems, a track in cybersecurity, virtual reality and game development, plus cybersecurity and esports undergrad certificates. The school is now proud to be the home of the GRID Lab, which conducts advanced research and produces content largely centering on augmented, virtual, mixed reality and digital games. ECT is the place to gain real-world experience for careers in virtual world-building.
The McClure School is currently offering the Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA) 5G Readiness Certificate free of charge.
Interested in Cloud Engineering? Learn about it on Professor Kruse's Twitch stream (opens in a new window).
Also, check out our network administrator Doug Bowie's collection of Tech Nuggets videos (opens in a new window) videos that guide students through a variety of networking activities.
March 21, 2025
Dr. Rishabh Das is a new Assistant Professor at the McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies teaching students about the importance of cyber security. We interviewed him to learn about his role as a professor, his research and the unique opportunities and guidance he offers to Ohio University students.
March 14, 2025
Prof. Bruce Tong, recently joined as a full time faculty the McClure School. He will be bringing his vast industry expertise in compliance, network security and coding to various undergraduate and graduate courses in the ITS and the new Cybersecuity Operations program.
January 18, 2025
We recently touched based with ITS Alumn, Zach Miller. He is now a Principal Security Specialist Solutions Architect for Amazon's AWS. He shared with us his recent talk at AWS reInvent 2024 where he discusses how to use public key infrastructure (PKI) to issue and manage private certificates that identify corporate resources and secure communications