Depending on which role you choose, you could help to increase a community's access to safe drinking water, or help to protect valuable local cultures.
There is no disputing the fact that the most precious things in life are friends, family, and health; so it behooves us all to be lifetime learners on how to manage these things well.
SOA enables these valuable existing software assets to be recombined in new ways, to produce a more flexible IT realization of your business design that's adaptable to changing business needs.
Attrition at the Ph. D. lever is also thought to be a waste of precious faculty time and a drain on university resources already being used to capacity.