Archive for March, 2012
Continuing its tradition of outreach to our Kansas City K-12 community and promoting STEM studies, UMKC’s School of Computing and Engineering (SCE) actively supports and participates in FIRST Robotics goals and objectives. SCE’s Dean Kevin Truman was instrumental in the creation of the KC STEM Alliance, a collaborative regional network which includes PLTW and FIRST [...]
Ph.D student Michael Todd Gardner and SCE faculty Dr. Cory Beard were awarded the “CQR Best Paper Award” at the International Communications Quality and Reliability (IEEE CQR) Workshop for their research paper, Evaluating Geographic Vulnerabilities in Networks. It was one of three papers chosen for this honor at the May 10-12, 2011 workshop held in [...]
SCE congratulates our graduate students, Vida Ferdowski, Xuan Liu and Swathi Soni, who were awarded funding by the UMKC Women’s Council which for 41 years has annually provided UMKC women graduate students’ access to research and/or travel funding via the Graduate Assistance Fund (GAF) awards. The awards are competitive and a maximum of $2000.00 may [...]
Great Plains Networks(GPN) has appointed Dr. Deep Medhi, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, to its Cyberinfrastructure Committee. Each state is allowed two members on the committee. Appointment is made by the state’s executive council member Gary Allen, Vice President of Information Systems for the University of Missouri. Dr. Gordon Springer, [...]
Seventy (70) Latinos of Tomorrow (LOT) students from area high schools and community colleges were welcomed to UMKC by Kevin Truman, Dean of UMKC’s School of Computing and Engineering on March 3, 2012. Emphasizing the importance of post-secondary education to achieve professional and personal goals, Dean Truman talked with the students and their families about [...]
Over 150 SCE students, faculty, staff and alumni turned out for the end of E-Week Party and Mr. Engineer Competition held February 24, 2012 at 810 Zone. Food was provided by the SCE Student Council. The Mr. Engineer contest was organized and sponsored by Society of Women Engineers. The 2012 Mr. Engineer, Taylor Christmas, impressed [...]
Professor Deep Medhi has been recognized by UMKC for his outstanding graduate mentoring; he is the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring recipient, UMKC’s highest honor to a faculty member with a long-established career at the University who has made significant contributions to higher education through exceptional mentoring of graduate students. Dr. Medhi, [...]
A new start-up company, EyeVerify, is utilizing UMKC SCE Professor Reza Derakhshani’s eye-vein biometrics research to develop a biometric personal authentication software module able to identify a cell phone device user. According to the Silicon Prairie News article, Kansas City startup EyeVerify sees opportunity in the whites of your eyes, “Derakhshani, in tandem with Arun [...]
Two SCE student organizations, the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), recently engaged with area high school students promoting STEM studies and STEM careers. Dr. Ceki Halmen, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, and NSBE members demonstrated to students from Bishop Hogan High School the importance of materials and [...]
25 local high schools students participated in the 30th annual Bridge Building contest on February 11, 2012. The contest is organized by the Western Chapter of the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers and sponsored by UMKC’s School of Computing and Engineering. Each student designed and built their basswood bridge prior to the contest. On the [...]
