Tech companies around the world are doing all they can to encourage core math and science classes in-country so they won't have to go abroad to recruit candidates when they need employees. The impressive talent pool India provides Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and a wide range of industries globally, is a glaring example of how that investment pays huge dividends. Intel (News - Alert) and Carnegie Mellon University's IDeATe (Integrative Design, Arts and Technology) program are coming together to provide a new way to educate students by bringing different disciplines together to explore their concentrations in a collaborative setting.

By bringing together fine art, design, engineering and computing, they are hoping the cross pollination of these disciplines will nurture new methodologies in which students will be able to solve problems and find innovative solutions that can be applied directly to real-world environments.

The project is going to be housed at the Hunt library in a state-of-the-art facility equipped with the latest Intel hardware and software with fabrication shops, multimedia studios and computing labs.

"The Intel Software Academic Program is instrumental to the success of this important educational experiment. By incorporating Intel support and systems, students will have the advantage of the latest digital tools in realizing their ideas.  The possibilities are very exciting in terms of product and process," said Danagh Burn, Project Director of IDeATe.

The Intel Software Academic Program provides Intel Software Development Products to faculty teaching parallelism and other advanced technologies. Along with financial support, the company encourages the development of next generation of computer scientists and software engineers nationally and internationally, such as with IDeATe.

The Carnegie Mellon University IDeATe program finds the connection between world-class technology and arts and uses these resources by exploring interdisciplinary team work. The concentrations and minors will begin in August 2014, addressing Animation and Special Effects, Entrepreneurship for Creative Industries, Game Design, Intelligent Environments, Learning Media, Media Design, Physical Computing, and Sound Design.

Students across any concentration will be able to embed the relevant degrees with participating colleges, with the minors being completed along a primary major.

"IDeATe concentrations will prepare students to pursue careers in areas ranging from social media to the 'Internet of Things,' mobile computing, games for learning and performance technologies. They will be uniquely positioned to work in environments where multidisciplinary collaboration among well-prepared experts is key," said Thanassis Rikakis, CMU's vice provost for Design, Arts and Technology.