Archive for January, 2012
SCE congratulates Professors Yugi Lee and ZhiQiang Chen! They have been awarded a 2012 research grant from the IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Program. Today’s Smart Grid, as an ‘Energy Internet’, holds the promise of transforming the behavior of individuals and communities towards more efficient and greener use of electric power but currently technological gaps [...]
The IBM Academic Skills Cloud was utilized by students in two of Dr. Yugi Lee’s Fall 2011 courses, CS551 Advanced Software Engineering and CS590VC Virtual Worlds in Computing. UMKC’s School of Computing and Engineering is one of fifty select universities which have access to the IBM Academic Skill Cloud. The cloud repository has access to [...]
Sarah Withee is the winner of the January CSEE puzzle contest. Sarah, a computer science student, is involved in the Association of Computing Machinery (treasurer), the IEEE Robotics Team (AI/Software lead developer), and the Society of Women Engineers. She is also a mentor with a First Lego League group and regularly volunteers at a homeless [...]
With plans to offer the course every fall, Professor John Kevern introduced in Fall 2011 SCE’s first one credit hour surveying applied skills course. The course provides students a fundamental introduction to the elements of surveying. Basics including terminology, coordinate systems, equipment, legal descriptions, and calculations are taught in the classroom and the field laboratory [...]
Judy Mullins, Associate Teaching Professor for the School of Computing and Engineering at UMKC, and Angela Klein, Adjunct Instructor of Dual Credit at Liberty Senior High School, presented a workshop on Electronic Storytelling and Animation Using Alice at the Science Pioneers Expanding Your Horizons event for 6-8 grade girls at Science City on Jan. 20, [...]
Dr. Amber Stern, UMKC SCE Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has received a 2012 John Haddad Young Investigator Award. Each year, the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) selects up to 10 investigators to receive a ASBMR John Haddad Young Investigator Award. The competitive award provides Dr. Stern funds to travel to the [...]
