Technology

Technology a confusing word, but an exciting concept! Technology is the creative use of science and engineering to make "stuff" like: Space suits, race-car driver suits, and bathing suits! Aircraft seats, automobile seats, baggy-pants seats! Corvette parts, boat parts, and human body parts! Medical uniforms, military uniforms, and fire fighter uniforms! And don't forget socks, shirts and underwear!

Technology takes ideas and puts them to work. It takes concepts and designs and produces products. Is there any time throughout your day that you are not in contact with a textile product? (Remember soap on a string)

Technology is exciting. It forces you to think from both the creative side and analytical side of your brain. It engages the whole person.

Think creatively, think technology "textile technology"
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Medical Textiles

As well as being comfortable to wear, operating room scrubs, masks and caps must provide protection against blood and air borne pathogens for the clinician and the patient. (Courtesy of Canadian Textile Journal, St-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada)

There are worlds to explore in the exciting field that includes:Medical Textiles (applications outside the body), Biotextiles (devices implanted inside the body), and Healthcare Product Management (the supply chain in a regulatory environment). Medical textiles, for example, includes a wide variety of applications from first-aid bandages and wound dressings, orthotic devices, support hose and other clothing that is used for the rehabilitation of injuries, to hospital linens and drapes, barrier fabrics, protective clothing and operating room scrubs. Other novel end-uses include surgically implantable biotextiles, such as sutures, hernia repair fabrics, arterial prostheses and anterior cruciate ligaments.

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Management

Explore the abundant opportunities for MS Textile Students with a Specialization in Management. The degree prepares students for a wide variety of opportunities in the exciting and rapidly evolving field of textile products. Some of the possibilities:

• Fascinated by Marketing and Consumer Research? Prepare for a career in Market Research, Brand Management or Forecasting.

• Systems/Logistics more your style? Consider opportunities in Production Scheduling, Inventory Management, and Materials Requirements Planning.

• Are you a Financial Wizard? Opportunities in Product Costing, Capital Markets, or International Finance may pique your interest.

• Are you more into Information technology? Discover opportunities in Technology Evaluation, Systems Specification, and Project management.

• Are you interested in the expanding field of International Trade? Your options include Global Sourcing, Changing Trade Laws and Regulations, and Compliance.

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Product Design

Just think about the textile products that surround you all day, every day. Each these products was designed by someone. The incredible world of textile design touches every facet of our lives. Opportunities to be involved in the creation of clothes, the soft goods in homes, the floor and wall coverings in commercial buildings, upholstered furnishings, automobile interiors, protective surgical apparel, turn-out gear for fire fighters and many, many other products await you in the world of textile design.

Product design, merchandising for manufacturers or retailers, product research, product development and design management are only a brief sampling of the career opportunities that are available to those with a degree in textile design.

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