Essential Functions

The purpose of the essential functions list is to allow prospective students who are considering a career to be informed of the physical, emotional, and psychological demands related to training and employment in a field of study. These lists are provided to allow prospective students to make informed career choices by providing them with a summary of the physical abilities and personality traits that are generally required for the successful completion of a curriculum and result in employment in a field of study after graduation. Students in the Emerging Technologies programs must be able to perform the following essential functions:

• Be able to understand a problem that can be solved by using wearable computing, microprocessor solutions, personal robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles, and/or augmented reality and then conceive and implement a plan to solve the problem.
• Diagnose hardware and software problems and replace defective components.
• Maintain and update emerging technology equipment.
• Program in Python or other mobile technology language.
• Have sufficient manual dexterity to work with the fingers.
• Have normal vision with or without corrective lenses.
• Be able to exert up to 25 pounds of force occasionally.
• Perform sedentary physical activities and perform non-strenuous daily activities of an administrative nature.
• Have the ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or government regulations.
• Have the ability to write information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Have the ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Have the ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral diagram, or schedule form.
• Have the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Have the ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Be able to tolerate moderate noise.