This site is a journal that keeps up-to-date news about FPGA boards, what they are being used in, as well as news related to the industry.
This is one of the articles that can be found on the FPGA news site above. This article is particularly interesting because it mentions the announcement of Microchip Technology's radiation-tolerant FPGA board. To me this was unexpected as I believed that the benefit of FPGA was that it is reusable and things sent to space tend not to be reusable. However, the fact that a company is willing to produce a FPGA for space shows that there are more uses for FPGA that I initially thought
Some students may enter Stevens believing that hardware design is what they want to do. Due to the technical nature of FPGA and VHDL, may be a strong deterrent for hardware design. They most likely will not enjoy writing hardware description language and instead realize they have passions elsewhere.